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Rill towers above th eh v e l o f the plain. I t is 'b1f light fine
earth; and has a bu£h or twogfowing on it.' I enjoyed a. pleaf-
ing and fatisfadtory view from the fummit, and lboke&;’.;but in
wain, for the pillars on which the names were recorded; lamenting
that fuch memorials Riould ever be removed.’ A t a fm a ll
diflance northward is a fquare bafement of white marble; per*
Jhaps part o f the trophy. A Greek church has Rood'biear i t ;
and - fome Rones and rubbifli, difpofed fb as to form ati open
.place o f worfliip, remain. The other barrows mentioned by
Paufanias are, it is probable, among thofe extant hear BiauromE
C H A P. XXXVI.
A cave and the goat-Jiand o f Pan near Marathon — Story o f the
•woman o f No^oi^r- Way to , t^e‘L raye —* Account f it*-?
Remarks. ,
“ A I.ITTLE farther from the plain than Marathon, fays
“ Paufanias, is the mountain; of Pan, and a. cave worth fee-
“ ing. The entrance into i t isj narrow. Pafling it, there are
“ houfes and fonts or wafhing-pkces ; with thegoatTvfland o f
4tj Pan, as it is called, being rocks, which have been likened
“ chiefly to goats. On this fide is Brauron/?
I e n q u i r e d for this cave of a peafant,, who came to me,
while I tarried beneath the olive-tree. g Hi? affirmed it was not
much out o f my way to -Marathon, and undertook to; conduct
me to it. In the vale, which we entered, nea.r the v.eRigfs>@f
a fmall building, probably a fepulchre, was a headlefs Ratue of
a woman iedent, lying on the ground. -pThis, my- cpmp^pions
informed me, waaonce. endued with life, being an aged lady
pofleflfed of a numerous flock, which was folded near that fpot.
Her riches were great,; and her profperity was uninterrupted.
She
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She w«.dated by-her.gPOd'fcr«ne.. The w i n t e r s good by,
and even the rude month of March had. fpared her ftieep ^
goats. She now deled Heaven, is utepprehenfive for the
future, and-as fecure f r o m all milhap. But
correa her impiety and H i M M W j S M
penetrating froft to be itsivengmg mlmfterr and Ihe, her fold,
and .flocks were, hardened into flone
current, wasoalfo related to me at Athens. ’ T h e grave Turk
cites the wdmah of NolM, fonfo the traft P M j l “
arrogance, and enforce the wifdom of a devout and humblp dif-
pofition. I regretted afterwards my inattention to it on the
jL t i for I was affured that the rocky craggs afford at a « « am
point of view the fimilitudS of flteep and goats within an mclo-
fure or fold.
T he road from. Athens defcending toward Marathon is
rough and n a p * By the fide at the foot of the hill is a tall
tmver; and M ow ,
Rream were vefiiges of antient building, proba% r f the fonts
where E women walhed linen. W o p * * ' by them
to a fhallow river, which we eroded-in view of Marathon. Our
guhlo led us: up the
of the rock above the current, ufed perhaps br ftiepherds,
whiles their fiodks are browfmgOr drinking beldwv This place
not correfponding with the defcription m Paufanias-, I re-mounted,
Intending to enquire at Marathon. On the way we came
to a mill, in which fix or feven Albanians were fitting m a circle
on the floor at diriner.. .One-of them declared the grotto was
near, and that oh fome occafion he had been in ih We tamed
while they difpatched their homely fare, of which they invited
me to partake, and then returned with five o f them to th
rivulet j and quitting our horfes, afeended the mountain-fide,
which is Reep, with the tower on our l$ t hand.
| T he cave hasc two mouths diftant only a few feet from each
other. The rock before them is flat and fmoothj and, above