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departure from megalo-kastkon.
[chap.
ancient walls on mount juktas.
CHAPTER XIII.
kastron to arkhanes. mount juktas. venetian fountain.
sepulchre of zeus. ancient walls. modern cretans. ride
to kani-kasteli. middle-age remains. castle temenos.
the sites of thenae and omphalion. the river triton.
athene tritogeneia. tragical events at kani-kasteli.
monastery of haghio gheorghio epano-siphes.
March 5.
We left Megalo-Kastron early this afternoon, and
soon past Fortezza1 a little on our left. In somewhat
less than an hour and a half, we quitted the undulating
and cultivated surface of the plain which surrounds the
capital of the island, and began to ascend the stony
slopes of the eastern side of Mount Juktas. At length
1 I adopt the Italian orthography : a Greek would write the word <Povp-
departure from megalo-kastkon.
[chap.
ancient walls on mount juktas.
CHAPTER XIII.
kastron to arkhanes. mount juktas. venetian fountain.
sepulchre of zeus. ancient walls. modern cretans. ride
to kani-kasteli. middle-age remains. castle temenos.
the sites of thenae and omphalion. the river triton.
athene tritogeneia. tragical events at kani-kasteli.
monastery of haghio gheorghio epano-siphes.
March 5.
We left Megalo-Kastron early this afternoon, and
soon past Fortezza1 a little on our left. In somewhat
less than an hour and a half, we quitted the undulating
and cultivated surface of the plain which surrounds the
capital of the island, and began to ascend the stony
slopes of the eastern side of Mount Juktas. At length
1 I adopt the Italian orthography : a Greek would write the word <Povp-