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)

128 HERMIONE. KASTRI.

the gate leading to Mases is the temple of Lucina, within the walls
of the city. Pausanias, Corinthiaca, 35 and 36.

Strabo says the inhabitants of Hermione were called Haliei or fish-
ermen, but that the city was not of obscure origin. There is a short
way from Hermione to the infernal regions.

HERMIONE. KASTRI.

Nothing can more clearly shew the impossibility of rendering a
book of routes intelligible by using the modern names only of towns,
Villages, and mountains, than the frequent recurrence of the same
term. Hermione is now termed Kastri, so is Delphi, and so are
many other ruined fortifications in the country. Kastri is like Da-
mala, built in the style of the toAvns of the Archipelago, with flat roofs,
and the houses of that species are usually more commodious and less
liable to injury from rain, than the tiled houses of th e continent of
Greece. The walls are built of stone, sometimes covered with stucco.
On these rafters are laid almost in their natural state at short in-
tervals. These are again covered with small bushes resembling
furze, on which gravel is thrown. The platform on the top has
usually an inclination scarcely perceptible, to one of the angles, from
which the rain water is discharged. The method is so simple that the
total exclusion of the water during the most violent showers seems
astonishing, yet the fact is no less true. No care is taken of these