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TOUR TO SOME VILLAGES IN THE PLAIN. 521
On the loth of October, after the heat of the summer had sub-
sided, I sat out on horseback, accompanied by my artist, and two
Greeks. My object was to visit some of the villages in the plain,
to observe the manners of the country people, and to search for
antiquities and inscriptions. We proceeded towards the Mystic
gap, in the way to Eleusis, and in half an hour arrived at the foot
of the pointed hill joining Korydallos, which is conjectured to be
Poikilon. We reached its summit in eleven minutes, and examined
the church of Saint Elias, which is entirely modern ; nor are there
any traces whatever of antiquity. Our trouble was however repaid
by the beautiful view which the situation commands, of Athens,
and its plain, its mountains, and its ports.
We proceeded from hence to the monastery of Daphne, passed
by the temple of Venus, and her votive rock, saw Eleusis across the
plain, and turning to the north-east, passed near some cottages in
theThriasian plain, belonging to Kasha. In the vicinity we re-
marked a well for the preservation of rain water, with the dry
channel of a winter torrent.
After travelling for two hours and nineteen minutes from the
votive rock, we arrived at the foot of Parnes; and were an hour
in ascending from hence to Kasha, by a route that was intricate
and difficult.
Having passed the night at this village we quitted it the next
morning; and descending towards the plain of Athens, by a road
to the east of the usual way, in twenty minutes reached some scat-
tered cottages, the Kalybia of Kasha, at the north-east extremity
of Korydallos. This mountain is here distinctly separated from
Parnes, by an intervening plain.
An hour from Kasha brought us to some blocks, traces, and foun-
dations of a considerable town at the foot of a gentle eminence; upon
the summit of which is the church of Aywi crupxvTu, " Forty Saints,"
about which are several fine blocks of white marble, two sarco-
phagi, and a third within the church. The fragment of an Ionic
capital was the only architectural ornament which I observed.
vol. i. 3 x
On the loth of October, after the heat of the summer had sub-
sided, I sat out on horseback, accompanied by my artist, and two
Greeks. My object was to visit some of the villages in the plain,
to observe the manners of the country people, and to search for
antiquities and inscriptions. We proceeded towards the Mystic
gap, in the way to Eleusis, and in half an hour arrived at the foot
of the pointed hill joining Korydallos, which is conjectured to be
Poikilon. We reached its summit in eleven minutes, and examined
the church of Saint Elias, which is entirely modern ; nor are there
any traces whatever of antiquity. Our trouble was however repaid
by the beautiful view which the situation commands, of Athens,
and its plain, its mountains, and its ports.
We proceeded from hence to the monastery of Daphne, passed
by the temple of Venus, and her votive rock, saw Eleusis across the
plain, and turning to the north-east, passed near some cottages in
theThriasian plain, belonging to Kasha. In the vicinity we re-
marked a well for the preservation of rain water, with the dry
channel of a winter torrent.
After travelling for two hours and nineteen minutes from the
votive rock, we arrived at the foot of Parnes; and were an hour
in ascending from hence to Kasha, by a route that was intricate
and difficult.
Having passed the night at this village we quitted it the next
morning; and descending towards the plain of Athens, by a road
to the east of the usual way, in twenty minutes reached some scat-
tered cottages, the Kalybia of Kasha, at the north-east extremity
of Korydallos. This mountain is here distinctly separated from
Parnes, by an intervening plain.
An hour from Kasha brought us to some blocks, traces, and foun-
dations of a considerable town at the foot of a gentle eminence; upon
the summit of which is the church of Aywi crupxvTu, " Forty Saints,"
about which are several fine blocks of white marble, two sarco-
phagi, and a third within the church. The fragment of an Ionic
capital was the only architectural ornament which I observed.
vol. i. 3 x