with fotne fifties, offended at their fize, and, being told that
fuch only could be procured, refolved to attend the trial. The
boat was furprized by a Barbary>cruifer. « He was carried into
flavery, and employed to grind wheat, and at the fame time to
fock a child j until he moved the compaffion of his owner by
finging fome words, which he compofed, void of poetry, but
expreffive of his folly and its eonfequences. I fhall irjfert them
from a copy written by the prieft, as a fpecimen of the verfifi-
cation and language of modern Greece.
■robaBW teW itttXct.
(Ml ] t ¥&.
r\ c lhlV& . A w S s A S j .
.... la yigs&ts.
1o %6£OfMjAo.
x,xn%. lapazrovrUfa.
A Bifliop without brain or fenfe,
Deferving fuch a recompenfe!
With fmaller fifties not content—
Author o f thine own punifhment !
Turn, turn the mill,: a fit employ,
And lull to fleep the Arab-boy.
C H A P . LI.
Ibe g u lf o f Epidauria— O f Methana— An antient charm ^
A hot fir in g— Theijlets— O f Epidaurus— The harbour.
W E returned to the fhore in the evening from Damala, and
before night landed on the ifland Calaurea. The next day we
tent fome men in the boat for provifions to the town o f Poro.
They came back at noon. We failed, and landed again on the
peninfula o f Methana, on the fide toward Attica. Here was a
tmobo I \ | ruined
i ig
t u r n e d church, %vith a well. The mountain waa bare and bkcfe,
a fire having lately confirmed the wood. Wo lay .among huge
fingle rocks, fome' poifed, as it were, on a point. In the
morning we embarked haftily with a fair breeze; which fading,
we continued for fome hours on a fmooth fea, expofed to th
intenfe heat of a cloudlefs fun. We palled between fome iflets*
and entered a gulf or deep bay, in which' is Methana j with
Epidaurus oppofite, but nearer the mouth.
M e t h a n a ot Methone was a fmall city on the weftern lido
o f the peninfula. The name is ftill reMined. - The « o p t o
or citadel was on amonntain moderately high , « « M M
inacceffible. The Wall was o f exetfflenf -ma»my, and has been
repaired, but is again in.fuins, “ J W * ? Wff rlPt,on
by the entrance of. a churchy on ^ e fite .gp rh a^ of the temple
of I& , but without a roof. Round ahodt the rock were y
fences, pf piled Hopes,
ploughed fields tnd . neglerted “ j.
country was thenjyqwn and difmal. A femjcrr^lar range of
mountains rifes behind.
P au sahi A«, relate«, that he wondered m o ^ a device ufed
at Methana to avert Libs o f the foufh-weft wind, which. coming
from the Saronic go lf;. withered the: spies, when m bud.
A Couple of men, while it was blowing, divided a cock with
white feathers into two parts, and running in a contrary direction
eneompaffed the vifniyardS eacfi’ beflring a portion.,, JThey
' buried the cock pndieir arfivaipt the place, from whence they
had' ft&rtfed.‘
T he hot baths were computed about thirty Radia o r three
«iles ahd^three quarters fro® Methana. The
fir ft when Antigonus fon of Demetrius reign.
after a fiery eruption from a volcano, which trailed m a lev
plain a mountain feven ftadia or near a mile h^h ^for feme^ time
Inacceffibfo byday on accountoHl^^atand theftcongfolpb^o^