Argostoli has already been noticed as the seat of government; but as its population does not exceed 4,000, the town possesses no peculiar importance in the isle. Its appearance has been improved, since the occupation of Cephalonia by the English; and the police greatly amended, so that the assassinations, which were before very frequent here, now scarcely ever occur. The peninsular site of Argostoli, between the gulph and the sea, was until lately a source of much inconvenience; the people coming to the town from other parts of the isle being obliged either to cross the gulph by an ill-regulated ferry, or to make a circuit round the shallow lagoons which form its upper extremity.
