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60 REMAINS OF AN ANCIENT CITY.
the ruins of a small city and fortress. There are several traces and
foundations of walls, and the fort stands on a rocky promontory
rising from the sea. It is now called Pyrgos, from a modern tower
which is composed of ancient blocks. This spot commands a fine
view of the gulf, and the magnificent precipices of Euboea; but
finding nothing to detain us here, and distrusting the suspicious ap-
pearance of a boat, which landed some men at the foot of the pro-
montory, who were evidently endeavouring to elude our observation,
we were glad to retrace our steps to the village, and eat our pilau
with more appetite than we should have done if we had fallen into
the hands of the pirates who infest the Eubcean coast.
The next morning, the 23d, we rode about a mile inland from the
village to inspect the remains of a city upon a hill, the summit of
which is encompassed by the walls, which are in a state of great
dilapidation and of small extent.
On a neighbouring eminence is a monastery, called Palaio Chorio,
where we found nothing worthy of notice except the view, in which
the Opuntian Gulf assumes the soft and beautiful appearance of a
fresh water lake. It is seen bounded by the mountains of Euboea,
Bceotia, and Locris, enlivened b}r the rich intermediate plain
of Opous, while the smooth expanse of water is broken by the
island of Atalante, and some long promontories which shoot out
from the Locrian shore.
TO LONGAKI.
We returned through Libanatis, and, on quitting it, observed an
ancient well and a torrent bed. In half an hour we saw some ancient
the ruins of a small city and fortress. There are several traces and
foundations of walls, and the fort stands on a rocky promontory
rising from the sea. It is now called Pyrgos, from a modern tower
which is composed of ancient blocks. This spot commands a fine
view of the gulf, and the magnificent precipices of Euboea; but
finding nothing to detain us here, and distrusting the suspicious ap-
pearance of a boat, which landed some men at the foot of the pro-
montory, who were evidently endeavouring to elude our observation,
we were glad to retrace our steps to the village, and eat our pilau
with more appetite than we should have done if we had fallen into
the hands of the pirates who infest the Eubcean coast.
The next morning, the 23d, we rode about a mile inland from the
village to inspect the remains of a city upon a hill, the summit of
which is encompassed by the walls, which are in a state of great
dilapidation and of small extent.
On a neighbouring eminence is a monastery, called Palaio Chorio,
where we found nothing worthy of notice except the view, in which
the Opuntian Gulf assumes the soft and beautiful appearance of a
fresh water lake. It is seen bounded by the mountains of Euboea,
Bceotia, and Locris, enlivened b}r the rich intermediate plain
of Opous, while the smooth expanse of water is broken by the
island of Atalante, and some long promontories which shoot out
from the Locrian shore.
TO LONGAKI.
We returned through Libanatis, and, on quitting it, observed an
ancient well and a torrent bed. In half an hour we saw some ancient