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220 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Charles Short, Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary alphabetic letter T, entry Thyre^um
   ii, n., a town in Acarnania, near Leucas, ; ; ; . (15.06)

2. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter L
   Leucas (14.30)

3. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD) alphabetic letter L
   l. c.) Its earliest inhabitants were Leleges and Teleboans (Strab. vii. p. 322), but it was afterwards peopled by Acarnanians, who retained possession of it till the middle of the seventh century B.C., when the Corinthians, under Cypselus, founded a new town near the isthmus, which they called Leucas, where they settled 1000 of their citizens, and to which they removed the inhabitants of the old town of Nericus. (13.93)

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3 from American Memory: Chesapeake Bay

1. Relatio itineris in Marylandiam; declearatio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro. Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum, ab anno 1635, a.d. annum 1638. Narrative of a voyage to Maryland, by Father Andrew White, S.J. An account of the colony of the page 31
   Sinus Chesopeack latus decem leucas (30 Milliaria Italica) placidè inter littora labitur, profundus quatuor, quinque, sex orgyis, piscibus, cùm favet annus, scatens: jucundiorem æquè lapsum vix invenies. (2.94)

2. Relatio itineris in Marylandiam; declearatio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro. Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum, ab anno 1635, a.d. annum 1638. Narrative of a voyage to Maryland, by Father Andrew White, S.J. An account of the colony of the page 18
   Prætervecti autem Fretum Herculeum et Maderas, et ventis à puppi vela inflantibus (qui non jàm vagi, sed ad austrum et africum qui noster erat cursus constantèr sedent) apparuerunt tres naves quarum una nostram mole superabat; distare autem videbantur ad tres circitèr leucas (novem milliaria) versùs occidentem, et nobis obviàm conari: interdùm etiam ad invicem ultrò citròque mittere et percontari. (2.58)

3. Relatio itineris in Marylandiam; declearatio coloniae domini baronis de Baltimoro. Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum, ab anno 1635, a.d. annum 1638. Narrative of a voyage to Maryland, by Father Andrew White, S.J. An account of the colony of the page 36
   Ex sancto Clemente, circitèr Leucas novem (id est, circitèr 27. (2.45)