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CHAPTER VIII.
ATHENS.
Mount Lyeabettus.
Jamque adscendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi
Imminet adversasque aspectat desuper arces.
Virg. Ms. 421.
They climb the ample hill which looking down
Upon the Citadel, o'erhangs the shaded town.
We ascend to-day the peaked hill of St George,
which is about a thousand yards to the N.E. of the
modern walls. This is one of the most remarkable
points in Athenian Topography. This hill is to Athens
what Monte Mario is to Rome. From its summit
the site and neighbourhood of Athens, lie unrolled
before the eye as in a map. Here the peculiarities
of its physical form which distinguish Athens so re-
markably from all other places, are more strikingly
exhibited than in any other site.
This peculiar form might be imagined to have
been produced by some such process as this. It
looks as if the surface of the country had once
been in a fluid state, swelling in huge waves, and
ATHENS.
Mount Lyeabettus.
Jamque adscendebant collem, qui plurimus urbi
Imminet adversasque aspectat desuper arces.
Virg. Ms. 421.
They climb the ample hill which looking down
Upon the Citadel, o'erhangs the shaded town.
We ascend to-day the peaked hill of St George,
which is about a thousand yards to the N.E. of the
modern walls. This is one of the most remarkable
points in Athenian Topography. This hill is to Athens
what Monte Mario is to Rome. From its summit
the site and neighbourhood of Athens, lie unrolled
before the eye as in a map. Here the peculiarities
of its physical form which distinguish Athens so re-
markably from all other places, are more strikingly
exhibited than in any other site.
This peculiar form might be imagined to have
been produced by some such process as this. It
looks as if the surface of the country had once
been in a fluid state, swelling in huge waves, and