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528 NUMEROUS IMPERFECT REMAINS.
A little to 'the west of the village Ave descried several vestiges
of antiquity ; of which perhaps some villa was once composed.
Near the mosque is a fount of the coolest water, shaded by a
wide-spreading Platanus.
The next morning, upon quitting Cephissia, we passed through
some olive groves, and crossed the Cephissos; the current of which
is clear and rapid, though only a few feet in breadth. Two tumuli
are here visible; one on the right, the other on the left of the way.
An hour from Cephissia we crossed a dry torrent bed, near a ruined
church, called Ere.mo Ekklesia,1 with marble blocks and traces
about it: to the right is a village, called Kalandri, in the olive grove.
Hymettos, which, from this point, is seen only in its breadth,
assumes a fine Vesuvian form.
We turned aside for a few hundred yards to the right, in order to
examine a ruined church at the north foot of Hymettos; where
however we found nothing but an erect marble column, with an
inscription of the lower empire, and near it a fountain destitute of
water.
We soon after passed another church, and a modern ruined tower,
and saw a village to the right called Kangia, which Stuart2 supposes
to be the ancient Leukonion. Hymettos was on the right and Pen-
telikon on the left; the intermediate plain, which was only partially
cultivated, was for the most part covered with low pines and len-
tiscus.
A windmill occupies an elevation to the left; and ancient founda-
tions are observed near the road. Twenty minutes further are other
remains; a short way beyond which we find more of the same
kind, and still further some ruined churches and mouldering re-
mains. This part of Attica, which is at present so totally deserted,
has evidently been busily peopled in some former period.
1 The Deserted Church. * Vol. 3. p. II.
A little to 'the west of the village Ave descried several vestiges
of antiquity ; of which perhaps some villa was once composed.
Near the mosque is a fount of the coolest water, shaded by a
wide-spreading Platanus.
The next morning, upon quitting Cephissia, we passed through
some olive groves, and crossed the Cephissos; the current of which
is clear and rapid, though only a few feet in breadth. Two tumuli
are here visible; one on the right, the other on the left of the way.
An hour from Cephissia we crossed a dry torrent bed, near a ruined
church, called Ere.mo Ekklesia,1 with marble blocks and traces
about it: to the right is a village, called Kalandri, in the olive grove.
Hymettos, which, from this point, is seen only in its breadth,
assumes a fine Vesuvian form.
We turned aside for a few hundred yards to the right, in order to
examine a ruined church at the north foot of Hymettos; where
however we found nothing but an erect marble column, with an
inscription of the lower empire, and near it a fountain destitute of
water.
We soon after passed another church, and a modern ruined tower,
and saw a village to the right called Kangia, which Stuart2 supposes
to be the ancient Leukonion. Hymettos was on the right and Pen-
telikon on the left; the intermediate plain, which was only partially
cultivated, was for the most part covered with low pines and len-
tiscus.
A windmill occupies an elevation to the left; and ancient founda-
tions are observed near the road. Twenty minutes further are other
remains; a short way beyond which we find more of the same
kind, and still further some ruined churches and mouldering re-
mains. This part of Attica, which is at present so totally deserted,
has evidently been busily peopled in some former period.
1 The Deserted Church. * Vol. 3. p. II.