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TEMPE AND METEORA
If "allcr guten Dinge sind drei," then our
Thessalian party was of the right number. Pro-
fessor Tarbell, the director of the American Archae-
ological School at Athens, had planned the campaign;
Mr. Roddy, a student, and myself made up the other
sides of the triangle. Taking a Greek steamer at
the Piraeus for Volo on the evening of the sixth of
May, we wisely sought our berths before reaching
Sunium, where Poseidon loves to rock the ocean
cradle. The steamer for Volo avoids the uncertain
temper of the yEgean and touches at the principal
ports of Euboea, which are on the west coast of the
island, by sailing through the strait which separates
it from Attica and Bceotia. This channel is made
of two broad gulfs joined by a narrow strait, the
Euripus, which is divided by an islet that undoubt-
edly formed part of a ligament between Euboea and
the mainland. The channel is but seventy feet
wide on one side of this rock and thirty on the
other. A remarkable natural feature is the strong
and variable current which flows through this nar-
row strait. It was a puzzle to the ancients, and
has been a provocation to their descendants. The
statement of some of the early Greek and Roman
writers that the current sometimes changed seven
times a day is outdone by that of Rear-Admiral
If "allcr guten Dinge sind drei," then our
Thessalian party was of the right number. Pro-
fessor Tarbell, the director of the American Archae-
ological School at Athens, had planned the campaign;
Mr. Roddy, a student, and myself made up the other
sides of the triangle. Taking a Greek steamer at
the Piraeus for Volo on the evening of the sixth of
May, we wisely sought our berths before reaching
Sunium, where Poseidon loves to rock the ocean
cradle. The steamer for Volo avoids the uncertain
temper of the yEgean and touches at the principal
ports of Euboea, which are on the west coast of the
island, by sailing through the strait which separates
it from Attica and Bceotia. This channel is made
of two broad gulfs joined by a narrow strait, the
Euripus, which is divided by an islet that undoubt-
edly formed part of a ligament between Euboea and
the mainland. The channel is but seventy feet
wide on one side of this rock and thirty on the
other. A remarkable natural feature is the strong
and variable current which flows through this nar-
row strait. It was a puzzle to the ancients, and
has been a provocation to their descendants. The
statement of some of the early Greek and Roman
writers that the current sometimes changed seven
times a day is outdone by that of Rear-Admiral