them,, is cut down perpendicularly. The entrances are low
and narrow. That oppofite to the left hand is lead commodious.
By this, two o f the favages with a light, creeping on
their bellies, got in, npt without difficulty, the aperture barely
admitting the body. I followed, and loon arrived in a chamber,
where I could Hand on my feet. The roof and fides were included
with fpar. We proceeded into fimilar chambers, in one
o f Which was water j often Hooping and creeping; my conductors
with their piftols cocked, fearing fome lurking wolf or
wild bead. I made my egred at the avenue intended for mortals,
or that mod eafy •, very dirty, but pleafed with what I had
ffeen, as well as glad to revifit day, and to regain a purer atmof-
phere, with freedom o f relpiration; the moid air confined
within being faturated, as it were, with the Fmoke of our wax-
tapers and cedar torches. We difmified the Albanians, and'
proceeded to Marathon.
T he reader will teoolie& the account we have given erf the
god Pan, and his prowefs at the battle of Marathon. It is
likely, the mountain owed its name and the cave to his fup-
pofed merit in that tranfaftion. He became a favourite fleaty,
and, it feems, was provided with a habitation near the ipot,
where be had acquired fo much renown. But now Pan with
his terrors is forgotten, His goat-dand is polfeffed by an ideal
woman; and the old fable concerning it, whatever it was, is
fupplanted by a modern fi6tion, ingenious as capable o f moral
application. Both tales, i t may be remarked, have been engrafted
on the fame dock 5 and each, as in the metamorphofis
o f Niohb, has appealed to the judgement o f the eye, and reclined
in forme meafure Jbrfupport on the evidence of appearances,
which exid.
C H A P. XXXVII.
Jtfcend 1mount Pentele— the Quarries — C h g &£• the
Monajlery of Pentele---Return t^Athens-'-rNm'eroûs Churches,
• 1 -;LEFT the goat-dand by Brauron early in' the W rn in g ,
followed by the’ good wilHes of m^'f||Ëc\kod,^n,d^be^anfet|)/
aîftëàd Pentele; chufirig to crofs the mçurftaiîi, rather than
return to Athens' by the way^'i^ich we camé.- j The track, f f '
we- advanced, became fo rough and deep, and fo f u l l c f hazard
from prècipicés, that I had frequent ôccâfipiy tq be ^ifpleafed
With this preference. At length, however, we attained nearly
tp the fummit, and alighted to refreffi-op a green fppt by a
idling-
D escending on the oppofite fidef, we ^covered a calpyer
c r rhonk tending hiS’ flock, and were diredted by him to ithe
quarries, which lây1 dut of the beatèn track, on a"root.of the
mountain'; The uppef quarry'is opèn to thé iky, with the rock
cut "ddivn! perpendicularly ; the lower is remarkabfo for vad
humid'caVerns. In thefe thé wide roof extends awfully.0TCrj
head, and is adorned with hollow pendant' tubes,'like|'iclcï^L^
each Having-a drop o f' clear water quivering at thq'endV and by
itf fall about to add to the fpars growing üp bdnéath. ' Within
the entrance,4• óh the right hand, a frfiall tranfparpnt petrifying
dream trickles down the fide of the rock j ijpreading with many
curious ramifications, ' as i f congealed by froft ; ang^forming.
bbwls- and bafinss, from which it*;overflpws. "-'A w e l l^ fu n k
dèep vin the mountain, with ' a'-harrow way down to the watéi-,
which is exceedingly cold. Wé faw shippings, of marble j and
were ihown at Athens a chrydal found in tbis quafiy. ■
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