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THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
[chap. xix
noon: our course lay through the gulph. The scenery of either
shore was beautiful; the mountains of Parnassus and CithEeron
were in view; the islands of iEgina and Salamis were before us,
and at length the Citadel of Corinth, whereon scarce a ruin re-
mains to tell of earth's most voluptuous city. We crossed the
isthmus by a road of six miles in length, and, re-embarking at
Lutraki, ran down the Gulph of Lepanto to Patras. The next
evening we past Missolonghi, and stood out into the Adriatic sea.
THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS.
[chap. xix
noon: our course lay through the gulph. The scenery of either
shore was beautiful; the mountains of Parnassus and CithEeron
were in view; the islands of iEgina and Salamis were before us,
and at length the Citadel of Corinth, whereon scarce a ruin re-
mains to tell of earth's most voluptuous city. We crossed the
isthmus by a road of six miles in length, and, re-embarking at
Lutraki, ran down the Gulph of Lepanto to Patras. The next
evening we past Missolonghi, and stood out into the Adriatic sea.