ridge nearly in the middle of the ifland, commanding an ex-
tenfiYe. view of the gulf and its coafts* • There was his holy
temple. The prieftefs: was a virgin, who was.difmiffed when»
marriageable. Seven- of the cities neap the ifland held a congrefs»
at it, and focrificed jointly to the deity. Athens, Ægina, and
Epidaurus. were of this number,, with Nauplia, for which place-
Argos. contributed.. The Macedonians, when they had reduced.
Greece, were afraid to- violate the fon&uary, by forcing from»
it the fugitivesi. his fuppliants. Antipater commanded his
general to bring away the orators,, who had offended him* alive *
but Demofthenes couldinot he prevailed on to furrender. Hi&
monument remained in the fecund, century, within the inclofure,
of the, temple., |;,,
T h e city o f Galaurea has Been longaBand'oned; Traces- o f
buildings ; apd; Of an tient ' walls appear, nearly level with th<e
ground -, and: fome ftones, in their places, each with a feat and
back, forming, a. little circle, once perhaps a bath. Thetemplé*
which was the . Doric order,, and not large, as may be inw
ferrnd frOm the fragments, is reduced to an inconfiderable heap
of ruins. ;The ftone is o f a dark colour* We found three
pedeftalsj. o f; blue-iVeined -marbles , ;One, which is »Rrihed^
has fupported a ftatue of king. Eumenes, ereéted by the city as
an acknowlegementof his virtues and o f his fervices to the God£
to the Calaureans,, and othec Greeks. -Many pieces lay ready,
cut to the fize which is a load for a mule, to bè carried down
to the fliore and embarked for the ifland of Hydre, where a
monaftery was then building. Our guide was a mafon who» had
been long employed in deflroying thefe remnants of antiquity, v
- A moi? g the iflanders who. repaired to U9 at foe monaftery
was a young goatherd, with a iheep from the fold. It happened
that one of us pulled out a watch, when he flared with • a
to be deferibed. Being afked, i f he knew
what it w^Si hejteplied, he.could not tell, unlefs it were<a fnuff-
box. oj^rceiving his attfwer oceafioned a frailer he added with
fome
fome warmth, «* How Ihould I know ? I walk the mountains.
We endeavoured, in vain to make him comprehend the ufe and
nature of that curious and with us common machine.
C H A P. m
Sail up- ike harbour- offtr&zen — Land oft'ihe ipenitifitte aft MeBand
— fy e bay or lake— O f^ m z en — The Aird*
\.; \ p iis ^ m ® i
A F T E R waiting fome time for a favourable &iftd, we left
foe monaftery, in the morning, and- crofted to the oppofite ihore •
o f the Jflorea, W e landed on a fpot ^ old
$owri> and found, there part of an ordinary Mofeid pavement, a
piece or twOiof marble, fome mean ruins*' and a folitary church.
About noon the wind, as was expe&ed, became fair, fetting
into the canal. .W e paffed by the towh o f Pom, and opened
the ftrait between the ifland and the peninflila^bf^Meftftiiai
through which Vre had entered. W e now foiled On, with,-the
main , land «n our left, up a bay*, once named Bogon or
Beard. It is {haltered by Calaurea bn the eaft,. and was the
harbour of Trcezen, in which a fquadron of the Grecian fleet
affembied before the battle, o f Salamis.- fe
T koezen was fifteen ftadia or almoft two miles from the
fea. A town named Damala or Thamala is now near the fite.
We purpofed going to this place, but found the water fo fhallow
at the top of the bay, that: we. could not approach, the fliore..
We mooreduatftome diftance to a rock by a poiM of thd pen-
Infufo.. On this.fpot a fmall fortrefs had been eredted. We
could trace the two fide walls- running up from the fea, with,
two round:towers at the aligns*-MandP Thefe remflahts are
thick, and.-of the nlafonry flyled Ineertum. FrdmanermMhee,.
natfar off,. a.eolumn asit were o f fmoke afcepded/Whtch we
were: