Wordsworth, Christopher: Greece: pictorial, descriptive and historical (London, 1840)

NORTHERN BASIN OF BffiOTIA.

The first of these five cities, which stands
at the north-eastern verge of the plain, is
Orchomenus : to the west of it, at the distance
of five miles, separated from it by the river
Cephissus, and placed upon a steep rock of
grey granite, is the elevated fortress of Chvero.n'ea. To the south of
Chseronea, at a similar distance on a northern declivity of Helicon, and on
the left bank of the river Hercyna, is the citadel of Lebadea, rising from
a precipitous cliff, on the eastern foot of which lies the town. Passing
from this place to the south-east for the same number of miles, and along the
roots of Helicon, one of which bears the name of the Laphystian hill, we
arrive at the base of the crested summit of Cokonea.

If we pursue our course to the cast of this spot, we cross several rills
which flow from the heights of Helicon on our right, one of which bears the
name, sacred to the Muses, of the Libethbiajj Hill, and which enter- the
Copaic Lake on our left, at some distance from the road.

After a journey of a little more than five miles in the same direction, we
find ourselves at the western gate of Haliartus. As we commenced at
Orchomenus, with the shore of the Copaic Lake at its north-west angle, so
here at Haliartus we are brought once more upon its brink at its south-
eastern extremity.

Those who treat of the geographical divisions of particular countries on
the face of the terrestrial globej feel, we apprehend, sometimes tempted to