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XXIII.]
DEPARTURE FROM GONIA.
31
KISAMO-K ASTF.LI.
CHAPTER XXIII.
PLANE-TREES. VIEW OF MOUNT IDA. PLAIN OF KISAMOS. SUP-
POSED CHANGE IN THE SUNS USUAL PLACE OF RISING. ASPECT
OF ANCIENT TEMPLES AND OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. INFLUENCE
OF THE ORIENTAL SUN-WORSHIP ON THE MODE OF PRAYING, AND
ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. KEBLAHS
OF THE JEWS AND MOHAMMEDANS. VESTIGES OF METHYMNA.
PROBABLE SITE OF RHOKKA. REMAINS OF KISAMOS. VISIT TO
THE ALBANIAN COMMANDANT OF KISAMO-KASTELI. ARRIVAL AT
UPPER-PALAEOKASTRON. CRETAN WILD-ASPARAGUS.
April 22.
We start at a quarter before nine o'clock, and, after
passing Agribiliana, and traversing groves of olive-trees,
which are almost entirely uncultivated, we leave the
village of Spilaea on our left, and arrive at a fountain
shaded by two plane-trees, one of them of most majestic
dimensions. For some little distance further we con-
tinue to ascend, and, until we cease to do so, see behind
us, not only the Akroteri but the whole of the snow-capt
vol. ii. c
DEPARTURE FROM GONIA.
31
KISAMO-K ASTF.LI.
CHAPTER XXIII.
PLANE-TREES. VIEW OF MOUNT IDA. PLAIN OF KISAMOS. SUP-
POSED CHANGE IN THE SUNS USUAL PLACE OF RISING. ASPECT
OF ANCIENT TEMPLES AND OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. INFLUENCE
OF THE ORIENTAL SUN-WORSHIP ON THE MODE OF PRAYING, AND
ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS. KEBLAHS
OF THE JEWS AND MOHAMMEDANS. VESTIGES OF METHYMNA.
PROBABLE SITE OF RHOKKA. REMAINS OF KISAMOS. VISIT TO
THE ALBANIAN COMMANDANT OF KISAMO-KASTELI. ARRIVAL AT
UPPER-PALAEOKASTRON. CRETAN WILD-ASPARAGUS.
April 22.
We start at a quarter before nine o'clock, and, after
passing Agribiliana, and traversing groves of olive-trees,
which are almost entirely uncultivated, we leave the
village of Spilaea on our left, and arrive at a fountain
shaded by two plane-trees, one of them of most majestic
dimensions. For some little distance further we con-
tinue to ascend, and, until we cease to do so, see behind
us, not only the Akroteri but the whole of the snow-capt
vol. ii. c