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feeling the powerful effects of the mid-day sun. After a
short, but fatiguing ascent, we arrived at the rock, which
extends in a vast perpendicular semicircle, beautifully
fringed with trees, facing to the south-east. Under the
crag we found two caves of inconsiderable extent, the en-
trance of one of which, not difficult of access, is seen in the
view of the fount. They are still the resort of sheep and
goats, and in one of them are small natural receptacles for
the water, covered by a stalagmitic incrustation.
These caves being at the extremity of the curve formed
by the precipice, open toward the south, and present us
with another accompaniment of the Fount of Arethusa'
mentioned by the poet, who informs us ' that the swineherd
Eumasus left his guests in the house, whilst he, putting on
a thick garment, went to sleep near the herd, under the
hollow of the rock, which sheltered him from the northern
blast. Now we know that the herd fed near the fount, for
Minerva tells Ulysses * that he is to go first to Eumseus,
whom he should find with the swine, near the Rock Korax
and the Fount of Arethusa. As the swine then fed at the
1 Od. line 533. z Od. line 408,
D 2
M
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feeling the powerful effects of the mid-day sun. After a
short, but fatiguing ascent, we arrived at the rock, which
extends in a vast perpendicular semicircle, beautifully
fringed with trees, facing to the south-east. Under the
crag we found two caves of inconsiderable extent, the en-
trance of one of which, not difficult of access, is seen in the
view of the fount. They are still the resort of sheep and
goats, and in one of them are small natural receptacles for
the water, covered by a stalagmitic incrustation.
These caves being at the extremity of the curve formed
by the precipice, open toward the south, and present us
with another accompaniment of the Fount of Arethusa'
mentioned by the poet, who informs us ' that the swineherd
Eumasus left his guests in the house, whilst he, putting on
a thick garment, went to sleep near the herd, under the
hollow of the rock, which sheltered him from the northern
blast. Now we know that the herd fed near the fount, for
Minerva tells Ulysses * that he is to go first to Eumseus,
whom he should find with the swine, near the Rock Korax
and the Fount of Arethusa. As the swine then fed at the
1 Od. line 533. z Od. line 408,
D 2
M
-?**