Cirrhaean territory was immediately confecrated by the advice of
Solon, one of their generals. The town was fupplied by a daft
with water from the Pleiftus. He intercepted the current, and
infufing roots o f hellebore it produced a general flux. Cirrha
was demolifhed, and dire execrations were pronounced againft
any perfon or power prefuming to moleft the god in the enjoyment
of his new pofleflions.
T he port o f Cirrha was convenient for Amphifla, a principal
city of the Locri Ozolse, diftant from Delphi one hundred
and twenty ftadia or fifteen miles. The people’ feized it, recultivated
the plain, and exafted from ftrangers even more
than the Criflaeans, but not with impunity. The facred war
followed and Amphifla was deftroyed.
C irrha continued to be the port of Delphi in the time o f
Paufanias. It had then a temple of Apollo, On the way to it
was the Hippodrome, or courfe for the Pythian horfe-races.
This was in the plain, then naked. No one Would plant,
either fearing the curie, or knowing the foil to be unfit for
trees.
W e left the monaftery early in the morning, and going back
to the mill, defcended into the vale between the Cirphis and
Parnafius. Here, as we travelled along, we had frefli occafion
to regard with wonder the rough and romantic fituation o f
Delphi; the rock riling prodigioufly high with precipices,'fome
perpendicular, between us and the village, and ftill towering up
behind; the fummits intruding into the blue Iky. The final!
ftream of the Pleiftus, inftead of purftung its way to Cirrha
and the fea, was abforbed among the olive-trees, vineyards,
and plantations.
T he rich vale ending, we crofled the Cirrhaean or Crifliean
plain, which, as antiently, was hare. We faw the town of
Salona on our right, at a diftance, on. a knoll or eminence.
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We paflfed over a root of mount Cirphis, and came, after about
three hours, in view o f our bark, lying at anchor, with fome
fmall-craft. By the water-fide was a magazine or two, and a
mean cuftom-houfe, at which we waited for a boat, to convey
us on board. The property o f the foil is again changed, and
Cirrha belongs, not to Delphi and Apollo, but to Amphifla or as
it is now called Salona.
C H A P. LX X.
A t GaUixithium-—A t fhithavra— A plane-tree on the Jhore o f the
Morea-<—Site o f B ojlitza— Agium---- fb e mouth t f the gulf-—
. Lepanto-.—fh e C af fes*—Arrive at Patree.
W,E let fail without delay, and, after clearing the bay o f
Salona, the wind blowing hard and contrary, got to Gallix-
ithiurp, a mean town, jof mud-built houfes,1 with traces ef
antient wall by the fea-fide. It is fuppofod CEanthea, a town o f
the Locri Qzolae.
s W e were detained in port until the morning, when we
tacked often, and the gale increafing, put in for Iheltcr at T hi-
thavra,;.: where we found other fmall-craft. "' We had in view
the Acro-corinthus, and the flat fummit by Nemea.
I E arly in the morning we crofled over to the Morea, and
anchored by fome fmall-craft and a French veflel, which had
failed with us from Corinth. A plane-tree by the Ihore is remarkable
for its vaft fize and height. It is found and flourilh-
ing, with huge limbs, affording a moft capacious and thick
lhade, A company ■ of armed Albanians, like that at Delphi,
Was fleeping beneath' it, and prevented us from meafuring the:
trunk. We were told that an earthquake and a mighty intm-
N n dation