Paxó, formerly Paxus, situated seven or eight miles to the S. E. of Cape Bianco, is an island of about 18 or 20 miles in circumference. Opposite to Parga is a tolerably deep bay, which serves as a port to the small town of Paxó, containing about 4000 inhabitants, and the only remarkable place in the whole island which only produces wine and oil, reputed to be the best of all Ionia. Many of the inhabitants of Prevesa, and some Souliots, have taken refuge in Paxó, and increased the population. Between Paxó and Cape Bianco is a desert rock; and to the S. E. of the island is another, called Anti-Paxó, inhabited by a few fishermen.
