Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia, Vol. 4 of 8

Book excerpt: Excerpt from Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia, Vol. 4 of 8: A New Edition, Prepared by a Corps of Thirty-Six Editors, Assisted by Eminent European and American Specialists The islands are of three classes: (1) Those near the coast, as the Ionian isles, Euboea (negropont), Cythera, Egine, Sala mis, etc.; (2) the Cyclades, around Delos, and the Sporades, scattered in the Egean Sea; and (3) the large separate isl ands, as Crete and Cyprus. Ancient Greece had many colo nies and dependencies on the coasts of Asia, Europe, and Africa, and the neighboring islands; modern Greece has none. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.