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350 REMAINS OF CYPARISSIAI.
We were received in the house of the English agent, Doctor Anas-
tasio Pasqualigo; and, instead of the scanty fare that is usually
found at such places, we were treated with a most preposterous pro-
fusion of good things. We had sent on a man in the morning to
inform him that we should arrive there that evening. When we
entered his house we found every thing in the greatest bustle, and
several people employed in preparing almost innumerable dishes for
our supper.
After we had sufficiently dulled the edge of our appetite, the
hospitable doctor would not be satisfied without continuing the re-
past till morning. He almost cried if we refused to partake of a
single dish out of an assemblage of not less than forty. My sto-
mach was never so strenuously besieged; and at last I was re-
luctantly compelled to risk the displeasure of the kind-hearted man
by resolutely refusing to eat any more. We paid him well for his
trouble and expense before we quitted his house; but we expe-
rienced much difficulty in prevailing upon him to accept of any
remuneration.
Some remains of the acropolis of Cyparissiai enclose the modern
fortress, which is in ruins. It contains one mosque and some houses
for the garrison. In the plain near the town are the few remains of a
small Doric temple. The view from hence is highly interesting and
extensive. The eye stretches over the broad expanse of the Cyparis-
sian gulf to the Ionian sea, in which the Strophades, with the more
distant islands of Zakunthos and Cephellania,2 are faintly visible.
Towards the north the spectator recognizes Katakolo Kastro, Castel
Tornese, and the low coast of Eleia, which scarcely peers above the
horizon. At the extremity of this low coast begins the Cyparissian
gulf, where the first objects are the hill of Samikon,1 the khan of
Zakaro, the ancient city near Strobitza, and the range of the Mes-
1 Now the gulf of Arkadia.
* The northern extremity of Zakunthos bears N. 35. W. The highest part of Cephallenia
N. 26. W. » Bearing N.3E.
We were received in the house of the English agent, Doctor Anas-
tasio Pasqualigo; and, instead of the scanty fare that is usually
found at such places, we were treated with a most preposterous pro-
fusion of good things. We had sent on a man in the morning to
inform him that we should arrive there that evening. When we
entered his house we found every thing in the greatest bustle, and
several people employed in preparing almost innumerable dishes for
our supper.
After we had sufficiently dulled the edge of our appetite, the
hospitable doctor would not be satisfied without continuing the re-
past till morning. He almost cried if we refused to partake of a
single dish out of an assemblage of not less than forty. My sto-
mach was never so strenuously besieged; and at last I was re-
luctantly compelled to risk the displeasure of the kind-hearted man
by resolutely refusing to eat any more. We paid him well for his
trouble and expense before we quitted his house; but we expe-
rienced much difficulty in prevailing upon him to accept of any
remuneration.
Some remains of the acropolis of Cyparissiai enclose the modern
fortress, which is in ruins. It contains one mosque and some houses
for the garrison. In the plain near the town are the few remains of a
small Doric temple. The view from hence is highly interesting and
extensive. The eye stretches over the broad expanse of the Cyparis-
sian gulf to the Ionian sea, in which the Strophades, with the more
distant islands of Zakunthos and Cephellania,2 are faintly visible.
Towards the north the spectator recognizes Katakolo Kastro, Castel
Tornese, and the low coast of Eleia, which scarcely peers above the
horizon. At the extremity of this low coast begins the Cyparissian
gulf, where the first objects are the hill of Samikon,1 the khan of
Zakaro, the ancient city near Strobitza, and the range of the Mes-
1 Now the gulf of Arkadia.
* The northern extremity of Zakunthos bears N. 35. W. The highest part of Cephallenia
N. 26. W. » Bearing N.3E.