Hermione, which city was diftant about eighty ftadia or ten
milps from Scyllasum. Our mariners called it Caftri, and had
been employed in tranfporting materials from it to the monastery
building at Hydre.
T he ruins of Troezen are moftly in the plain at the foot of
a lofty range o f mountains eroding from the Saronian lake or
bay^’to the gulf of Epidauria, The fite, with the whole
ifthmus, is overrun with buflies, but fome fpots produce corn
and cotton.. . Many rills of water delcend from the mountains,
and are co'n^udled and diftributed as the crops and foil require.
The Scattered churches are numerous, and occupy, it is likely,
the places of the. temples,. In Several are. infcribed pedeftals.
The veftiges, with pieces of wall and remnants of brick buildings,
Spread to a confiderable extent the fpace difpofed in terraces,
the areas clear, with rubbifh lying along the edges. The principal
ruin feems to have been the fubftrudtion or bafement o f
the temple of Venus, and on three fides is of. the mafonry
termed Incertum-. It Hands on an eminence, overlooking the
cavity o f the Stadium, and has on it fome remnants of a later
ftrudture. Theodore, the general who preferved Greece-in the
time of Theodofius the firft, was a great benefactor to this
place. Befides; Saving the city by the wifdom o f his councils,
he bequeathed a large Sum of money to the public. ;He was
rewarded, as ufual, with ftatues j and in one of th?.inscriptions
the people are diftinguifhed by their old name Pittheidse.
T he acropolis or citadel of Troezen was on. the top o f one
o f the. mountains, which tower high above the plaiq, There
was anticntly a temple of Minerva.. We had been told at
JDamala that many ruins remained, and I was unwilling to defer
the examination, as our recent Sufferings and the repute^ ,un-
healthinefs of this trad had rendered us ' all eager to be‘gone.
It wasnearnoon, and the Sun reigned in a cloudlefs fk y , when
I began to ^Scend. The rock was heated So much that it could
aaot be handled in climbing without pain; and the way was inapeded
peded with loofe Rones and low dry t a b s and parched herbage,
which crackled, and blinded me in paffing with dull and down.
After frequent paufes to obtain refrefhment from fcanty, made
and water, Ï attained to the Summit, with the affiHanpe_of a
Greek Servant and a faiior j and found only the rubbhh o f forne
churches, with two fragments of marble infcribed.
jLwhile to recover from our fatigue, and to enjoy a BW e$m~
five profoedt j and then defeended by a better track tower#
Damala. A gentle breeze, which had Sprung ug, was g f
Service to us, the air in the almolt aS
fire.
":IN our way down from the Summit, ór oft die eaftera fide,
we crofled a torrent-bed 5 gnd ‘off the a ftfeaffl more
confiderable, with a mill at the mbuhtain-fepVby which a man
W /fM Sm g , milk in a &iri! to th ik f hul%ér.; ' Orte'óf thefe was
M e d Chryforrhoas, W , %<mbSéM ?
flow after a drought dfhine yearSf when the' other fp rings failed^
;T h e fdüntain of Hercules fin the city, add one'funned Hippa-
Crene, was Supped from t M h i l f^
that thé’ Waters M T f cezên rifing^
hian'partook o f the'fame bad''jpftfp?r^êsj - nerves
I W aff dlfèblfed at Damala to the_hohfevSbfl WGféèk^ptfeft, So
which WÊ I M P _ The'town
is fmall and Situated on the mountaim-fide. It inherits, the
■ ffin|in^^tmofphere as Well as the bad Water°of Troezen. The
inhabitants are o f a fallow, .complexion, and- Aöjgufl: is ].pomr
}indniy a mbnth o f great .mdatafily. It -is -die fee. ‘4i£;jc bimop,
'aftff ‘ribfed fiif heiftg frequently Vacant,-as fit then was f the
ócoupier Seldom long Surviving Irisirnew dignity.' ;■
A p r o v e r b rA i, > faying, the bifhop o f Damala, :is current in
thefe parts, and applied to perfons who -filffer % their own
indiscretion. Theftory is Ample enough. mrMèt prefented
p f with