T h-'E poop of our Boat was covered, and Would contaih three
perfbris lying ialongor fitting. I t was furhilfeed'with'arms^ and’
in a niche was a picture of. the Panagia, o f a faint; ■ and -of. the
crucifixion, oh boards, with- a lamp burning, in alanthörni This5
feemed an eligible retreat from the noife and confofioft' on ‘the open'
deck, where all hands -Were fully employed. The vfeflel fhpbk,' and
heeled to and froexcefliyelyj the violence of its motion fliifting
me from fide to fide feveral times, though’ I- ftrove* to’ preferv©
my pofition unaltered. The captain at intervals looked in, and
invoked his deities to afluage the wind and fmooth the waves f
or, proftrate on his -belly, infpedted the -cbmpafs' by the glimmering
light of the lamp, and gave-diredtions Jo tho man at the
helm. The tardy rtbrningf as it were, mocked-our irdp'atience/
while we continued beating the wave's and toffing. . At .length'
it dawned, when we found we had been driveh from pur courfe ;
but the gale abated, leaving behind a Very turbulent fwell. 1
T he following day Was confumed in landing t& ln a fro
between the ifland Andros, and a cape now called D ’.Orp; hut
antiently Caphareus, the fouthern promontory o f Eubcpa toward
the Hellefpont;1 once J‘ noted for dange|b'us a^a" t i^
deftru£tion o f the Grecian fleet on its refürn from Troy.'' Befote
midriignjE we gained a final! port' beyond i t ‘wherd ^e^found at
day-break a couple of goat-herds, with their flocks, traces oT a
wall, and:o f - a chapel of the Panagia. On % rdeky eminence;
was-the ruin of a pharos efedted, we were ford, by"a Cojrfair fdb1
the benefit of figiialsi and .to facilitate His entering in the dark. 3
G e r ^ s t u s , the fouthern promontory o f Eubma'joward;
Attica, was reckoned'ten'miles from Andros, and_thjjtyr nine
from the xfknd C^ti Between it and Caphareus jyag ä city
named Caryflus, and near it a quarry,, with, a temple of Xhe
marble Apollo^, from which they crofled to Alas of' Araphen in
Attica. The columns cut there, .were much efteemed and
celebrated for their beauty. „ It - produced alfo a flöhe, the
amianthus,
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amianthus, which/-when Cjpmbpd,. jyaa wqven. in to^. towels.
Plutarch relates, that feme fibres only,:or,narrow .threads, o f this
fubflance were difepyered in. his time y but that towels made o f
it, wi,th nets' and cawls ufed by women fpr-their hairj,. were then
extant, and», when foiled, wer,e. thrown, into. a. .fire, by which
they we^rendered white and, <£lean..4&yby wafhitig. We failed
by thg^town^ which retains it^ antient name, in the morning.
It flands ,at, fame.diflancefron^*the jIiQnfesTifing on
the hare Hope of ^ropkyhill. The inhabitants have, a.very bad
pharad^er. . The. loftyfummits „.qf Ophe, the mountain above-
it,, werg “covered .with white*clouds^ j-
- J N fbe .evening we 'w.ere aga^.forced.‘into ,a. port or creekj:
but .we.lyad,j^m gained the,European continent, and were arrived
m Attica-r t^^etmoq r^^ 9»a»^£S»Qh«twhicEwa.s a ruined chapel
Pfjbe This being Saturday^ur mariners about funfet
bore thither Labdanum.to be. ufed as incenfe, s^ith cpals pf
fire, apd performed their..cuftomary devotions.
C H A P - II.
Xail~fp$Q£i H yd re^ W? pafs tlie. ijland Helene ---In the pQrt,qf
• fiunium - O f the v tfwa,— , Xhe temple oj^> Ifiinerya. Sunias.
. Hydriote vejfels
'• t^ie m° rni*rfg vve'fleered' with'-a favourable breezy
toward ' Sunium, a^romontory' .of. Attica fronting the^MaifSS
called Cyclades and the TEgeah fea^'diftant 'three hundred'ftacL
or thirty-feven miles and a half Irom the fouthe^tnoft promontory
o f Euboea named’ Leuce.br White, Thb.fun^arofe hurnifhWghhe £
filver deep, fkifted' by the A tH h 'a h d 'M ^ d n e f^ c b ^ l f
apraap.es, mountains^, and ifhnds in view y "and among.,the latter,
^ H y d r io t e s foQn dlfcoverei their n a t i v e ,^ , which theyhe-
Oeid, though .bare and producing nothing, with thtf fame-parti-
ahty of affbdion, as i f l t wereadornel tfrih the'golden fraits and ,
per ume y the a fom a t ic^ lli‘'oP‘^ b ii pointing iff out», and
expatiating on: the liberty they polffeiTed there.
H Y B R 'E