Dodwell, Edward: A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806: in two volumes (Band 1) (London, 1819)

420 PENINSULA OF THE PIR.EUS.

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- The first day we made the circuit of the peninsula and its ports:
the next was employed in examining the ruins of the interior; and
several others in excavating the sepulchres at the north of the Pirsean
wall, and towards the foot of Mount Aigaleos.

The circuit of the Pirsean peninsula, with that of Mounychia, is
sixty stadia, according to Thucydides ;* but the inequalities caused
by the ports Avere probably not considered in the computation.
According to the same author the distance from Athens to the
Piraeus was forty stadia.

The Piraeus is one of the finest ports in Greece; and being-
bounded by rocks has experienced hardly any change in its form
or dimensions. The sea however appears to have encroached a little,
as some ruins are seen under water. The general depth of the port
is from two to ten fathom ; in some places it is twenty.2 It is called the

1 B.2. c. 13.
s See Dr. Clarke's Travels in Greece, vol. 3. c. 11. p. 460.