C H A P . LXIV.
O f Bulis— Places on the coafi between Bulls and the Ifthmus —
Phe bay o f Livadoftro--- Aftera— Mount Helicon— rPhe grove
. o f the Mufes— O f the ftte ,:&.c.
A N T iC Y R A had on the eaft or the fide next to the Iftb-
mus the town of Bulis. The mountains, which intervened,
were fcarcely paflable. The port was onp hundred, Radiator
twelve miles-and a,,half on the way to, Lechasum. The town-
was feated on high; 'at the diftance o f about Teven fiadia or near
a mile. By the track, afcending to it, was; a. torrent river,;
calledfHeraclxus, runping into the Tea. A fountain was called
Saunium. The inhabitants were moftly employed in procuring
the', &elhf fi£h, which yielded a purple colour. Bulis as well as .
Stiris was abandoned in the tenth century, and both the celhand
garden of Luke had ruin and defolation in their vicinity. :
B u l i s was on theeonfines of Reeptia and Phocis. Mychus,
the laft harbour of Phocis, was in a; bay or recefs, the'deepeft.
o f any in the gulf. Beyond it was mount Helicon, and Afcra,,
and Thelpiaij with its port Creufa: and more within,* Paga?
and Oenoe/ on'e' bounding the Megaris, the other Corinthia.
Pagae and the port o f Schoenus were nearly equi-diftant from
the Piraeus. Between Pagae 'and Lechaeum was a pror,
montory oppofite to Sicyon, making the recels i'jm ce tKe ffeat
o f an oracle o f Juno. From thence the paflage over to'Corinth
was about Teven miles and a half.
T he courfe o f veffels crofting from the Peloponnefus to, the
port of Thefpiae was crooked, with a rough fea broken hy capes,
and liable to violent gufts and eddies of wind from the mountains.
Sailing from thence, not up the bay, but along the coafi:
Or
or toward Phocisi you came to the port of Thifbe j and, eroding
a mountain by the fea, entered a plain,' beyond which was another
mountain with the city at its feet, on the borders of Thefpiae
and Coronea« The plain would have been a lake, hut a ftrong
mound was made acrofs it, and, by confining the waters, refeued
a portion* which was cultivated. Thilbe was. eighty fiadia. or
ten miles from Bulis, and its port one hundred and fixty fiadia
Or twenty mills from Sicyon, The rocks hear it abounded in
doves. Sailing on as before, you came to Tipha, a fpaall town
by the fla,
T he gulf or repeft within Olmiae ip riow called the bay of
Livadoftro. It is overlooked on the north by mount Elatea or
Cithaeron, which ends by the harbour o f S t .' Bafilio, , once
Creufa. Beyond a ridge, which commences there, ip the
harbour of Livadoftro or of Thifbpi Farthër 6n, weftward, 4
very high rock runs into the fea j after which is a port and town
called Cacos, once Typha. Helicon begins there tpt ipar aloft,
until* its head reaches above the clouds. By the pramontpry,
which lies weft-fouth^weft from St. Bafilio, are four i {lands
called Calanefia or Phe gaadfftands. ^ F rpmSt.BafilioWheler
arrived in about an hour at the town of thaj name, which had
been recently ruined by pirates. The remains o f antiqpity, and
the fituation, as connected with the port, render it probable that
was Thefpiae. He defeended from a lofty village named Rimo-
caftri to Caftri or the ruins of Thifbe, near a large plain and a
fiagnknt lake. A t Livadoftro was an old tower and a church
frequented by mariners %
AscfcA, the birth■ rplac? o f Héfiad, was in the territory o f
Thefpiae, on the right fide of Helicon, diftant from the city
* "Wfrsl^r found ruins, he ftipppfps, of Thefpise, op a hill about four miles
from Rimocaftri weftward j and five or fix from Cacos; but this fite canpptbe reconciled
wifb the geographers. ’.It feems to have been Corpnea; ' See Strabo, p. 411 •
The ruins beyond St. Bafilio called Palaeocaftro, on the way tó Thebes, were,’
it is likely, Haliartus. See Paufanias, p. 306.
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