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110 IERO TO EPIDAURUS.
IERO TO EPIDAURUS.
On quitting the sacred precinct of iEsculapius, observe on the
right a tree, under which is a well or fountain, to the water of which is
yet attributed a healing quality. At one minute cross a brook from
the right; <©ia tfee base of the nearest mountain observe foundations.
in a glen on the right are other vestiges. Cross the courses of two
other rivulets reaming toward the Argolic Gulph, before five minutes.
Tire mlley which is here narrow and prettily spotted with shrubs,
seems to have bees guarded by a stone wall, distant eight minutes
from the peribolus. From these foundations the road descends in a
wilddelj, with a stream which runs to the sea at Epidaurus. At 11
minutes another ruined wall. See Mount Aracbne on the left. Cross
a perennial brook from the right. The road descends in a very pic-
turesque and romantic glen, overhung with rocks and shaded with
pines, running in a direction about N. W.
At 24 minutes a path falls in from Eykourio through an opening in
the hills to the left. Here the road turns northward, and is entirely
darkened by trees, and the luxuriant foliage of a thick grove of
arbutus. At 2.7 minutes see a stone foundation, probably that of a
tower to defend the pass. Observe several plants of the Arbutus An-
drachne, called by the Greeks Chrysokomerios, from the golden co-
lour of its branches, which is not so common as that before-men-
IERO TO EPIDAURUS.
On quitting the sacred precinct of iEsculapius, observe on the
right a tree, under which is a well or fountain, to the water of which is
yet attributed a healing quality. At one minute cross a brook from
the right; <©ia tfee base of the nearest mountain observe foundations.
in a glen on the right are other vestiges. Cross the courses of two
other rivulets reaming toward the Argolic Gulph, before five minutes.
Tire mlley which is here narrow and prettily spotted with shrubs,
seems to have bees guarded by a stone wall, distant eight minutes
from the peribolus. From these foundations the road descends in a
wilddelj, with a stream which runs to the sea at Epidaurus. At 11
minutes another ruined wall. See Mount Aracbne on the left. Cross
a perennial brook from the right. The road descends in a very pic-
turesque and romantic glen, overhung with rocks and shaded with
pines, running in a direction about N. W.
At 24 minutes a path falls in from Eykourio through an opening in
the hills to the left. Here the road turns northward, and is entirely
darkened by trees, and the luxuriant foliage of a thick grove of
arbutus. At 2.7 minutes see a stone foundation, probably that of a
tower to defend the pass. Observe several plants of the Arbutus An-
drachne, called by the Greeks Chrysokomerios, from the golden co-
lour of its branches, which is not so common as that before-men-