Gell, William: The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country (London, 1810)

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tioned. A brook accompanies the road. At 43 minutes cultivation
and olives. The wild olives, which often cover the sides of moun-
tains in Greece, bear a small berry, the oil of which is too bitter to
be used for any other purpose than for lamps; it is usually em-
ployed in the lamps of churches, and bears the name of holy oil.

Pausanias says, that " descending from the grove of iEsculapius
to the city of the Epidaurians, you see a region covered with wild
olives, called Hyrnetho."

At 53 minutes the dell opens. At one hour see iEgina and the
promontory of Methana. Another road from Lykurio falls in from
the left. At one hour six minutes, cross a stream from the left. The
road is here bordered with myrtles, and the scenery very beautiful.
At one hour 16 minutes the vale is less confined; on the right is some
cultivation. At 22, pretty fields with olives and a village on the left,
under Mount Arachne. Cross a brook from the left. At one hour
44 minutes see a tumulus on the left. There was a place called
Hyrnetho in this situation, with an heroic monument to her memory.
Pausanias, Book 2, Chap. 28. Cross another brook from the left, after
which observe ruins of Roman workmanship on the left. Hence the
track runs in a direction nearly east. At one hour 46, another stream.
At one hour 51, cross the rivulet which accompanies the road twice.
At two hours, a cave on the left. Ascend a little hill about 1000
yards from the sea, and at two hours 14 minutes arrive at the little
village of Epidaurus, now pronounced Pidavro by the natives. Not