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74 CHANGE OF BEMA. [cHAP. X.
land only. Now this might be done in two ways;
either the position of the bema might be altered, or
its height reduced: its aspect in either case might,
and I believe in reality did, remain precisely the
same as before. From the existing indications on the
spot, the former of these two alternatives seems to
have been adopted.
There are very distinct remains of another solid
rectangular rock, in short, of another bema, which
has evidently been mutilated by design, at a distance
of about twenty-five yards immediately behind the
existing one. From the former the sea is distinctly
visible; from the latter it is not. The former, there-
fore, I am inclined, to believe to be the spot from
which Themistocles, Cimon and Pericles, the latter
that from which Demosthenes, addressed the Athenian
land only. Now this might be done in two ways;
either the position of the bema might be altered, or
its height reduced: its aspect in either case might,
and I believe in reality did, remain precisely the
same as before. From the existing indications on the
spot, the former of these two alternatives seems to
have been adopted.
There are very distinct remains of another solid
rectangular rock, in short, of another bema, which
has evidently been mutilated by design, at a distance
of about twenty-five yards immediately behind the
existing one. From the former the sea is distinctly
visible; from the latter it is not. The former, there-
fore, I am inclined, to believe to be the spot from
which Themistocles, Cimon and Pericles, the latter
that from which Demosthenes, addressed the Athenian