Thiaki, formerly called Ithaca, is an island of about 20 miles in length, stretching from N. W. to S. E. and situated, at the distance of about six miles to the S. E. of Cape Dukatis. […] The island of Thiaki in reality forms two, united by an isthmus of about a mile wide. […] These two portions of the island are separated by a bay five miles deep and two wide, and in the eastern part of the same bay are two ports. The one, called Skinon, is placed near the entrance; and the other which is that of Vathy, has a narrow mouth, but it afterwards almost two miles deep. At the bottom of this port is the small town of Vathy, containing about 3000 inhabitants and occupying the ground of the ancient Ithaca.
