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may do it, if you please, but we are content with what God has
given us.
The water is perennial; but is lost in the mud as soon as it is
produced.
About a mile towards the west, in the direction of the Piraeus,
and near the road, a fountain issues from the ground, which is re-
ceived in a large cistern. This may be produced by the subterrane-
ous waters of Kallirhoe. When the cistern is full it overflows : and
the current entering the olive grove, near the great tumulus, pro-
ceeds towards Phaleron, until it is imbibed by the soil. Pliny1 men-
tions the fount of iEsculapius at Athens, which ran under ground
to Phaleron. Pausanias2 notices the same fountain. It was in the
temple of iEsculapius, which was in the plain near the theatre of
Bacchus. This is no doubt the same which is called Kxetyvfya, by
Hesychius,3 and which he says finds its way under ground from the
Acropolis to Phaleron.
About half a century ago there was a village, inhabited by tan-
ners and curriers, on the north of the Ilissos, extending from the
fount to the peribolos of the Olympieion ; the traces of the cottages
are visible along the bank of the river.
A short way to the west of Kallirhoe, a small ravine from the south
enters the Ilissos; and a little further we come to a modern bridge of
one arch, which is not requisite more than once or twice a-year,
after hard showers. The Ilissos runs between the Musaeum to the
north, and another rocky eminence to the south; at the eastern foot
of which is a Greek church, and some large blocks and foundations
of ancient buildings, probably a demos. The road to Sunium passes
through the ruins.
A short way beyond the Musaeum the bed of the stream is divided
into other smaller channels, and entirely lost in the plain, before it
reaches the olive grove.
During a residence of more than two months at Athens, on my
1 Nat. Hist. b. 2. c. 103. * B. 1. c. 21. > Lexicon, vol. 2. p. 276.
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may do it, if you please, but we are content with what God has
given us.
The water is perennial; but is lost in the mud as soon as it is
produced.
About a mile towards the west, in the direction of the Piraeus,
and near the road, a fountain issues from the ground, which is re-
ceived in a large cistern. This may be produced by the subterrane-
ous waters of Kallirhoe. When the cistern is full it overflows : and
the current entering the olive grove, near the great tumulus, pro-
ceeds towards Phaleron, until it is imbibed by the soil. Pliny1 men-
tions the fount of iEsculapius at Athens, which ran under ground
to Phaleron. Pausanias2 notices the same fountain. It was in the
temple of iEsculapius, which was in the plain near the theatre of
Bacchus. This is no doubt the same which is called Kxetyvfya, by
Hesychius,3 and which he says finds its way under ground from the
Acropolis to Phaleron.
About half a century ago there was a village, inhabited by tan-
ners and curriers, on the north of the Ilissos, extending from the
fount to the peribolos of the Olympieion ; the traces of the cottages
are visible along the bank of the river.
A short way to the west of Kallirhoe, a small ravine from the south
enters the Ilissos; and a little further we come to a modern bridge of
one arch, which is not requisite more than once or twice a-year,
after hard showers. The Ilissos runs between the Musaeum to the
north, and another rocky eminence to the south; at the eastern foot
of which is a Greek church, and some large blocks and foundations
of ancient buildings, probably a demos. The road to Sunium passes
through the ruins.
A short way beyond the Musaeum the bed of the stream is divided
into other smaller channels, and entirely lost in the plain, before it
reaches the olive grove.
During a residence of more than two months at Athens, on my
1 Nat. Hist. b. 2. c. 103. * B. 1. c. 21. > Lexicon, vol. 2. p. 276.
VOL. I. 3 P