lie about. The lofty barrow, mentioned before, is didinâ:, in
the plain, nearer the feà, and vifible all around.
- , QuiTT-m® the-olive-tree by Brauron, wé rode atoqg the
edge of the plain, with. Pentele behind us j pafled a. folitary
church, and, after a few minutes, turned into a narrow vale on
the left hand. We then eroded a mountainous ridge, the track
rough and dony, and came into the road, which leads diredtly
from Athens to Marathon. This place has retained its an tient
name, is well watered but very inconfiderable, confiding only
p f a few houfes and gardens. It was equidiftant from Carydus
in Euboea and, from Athens.
A T T icu s Herodes directed his freedmen to bury’ him at
Marathon* where ne died at the age of Feventy fix'J pût"’ the
Ephebi or young men o f Athens tranfpofted his body oii their
fhoulders to the city, a multitude meetingtheTier and "weeping
like children for the lofs o f 'a parent. T h e pbiei
'qmes 'were performed in the ftadium, which was chqfeo for .thh
place of fepulture. The epitaph of this ' dininguiflied perfon
was a Angle didich.
W e returned7 toward Brauron along the edge o f the- plain;
and paiTed fbme cottages and a church or two, on the fite perhaps
o f Oenoe, which town was à near Marathon. - We- afterwards
flan ted off to the lofty barrow by the fea; The evening
approaching, we repaired to a goat-ftand On the fide of Pentele,
not far from Brauron; - The peafants killed and roafted a kid for
my fupper, after which I lay down to fledp in the lee o f a huge
bare rock. , This region abounds in wolves. Several-large and
fierce dogs guarded us, and at intervals barked vehemently and
ran together, in a troop, as it were to an attack, or to repel
fome wild beaft from their charge. Thefe dogs render it very
dangerous for a dranger to go near their ftation even in the daytime,
unlefs accompanied by one of their keepers ; and then
likewife I have feen them not eafily pacified, and prevailed ©n
to retire.
C H A P .
; ‘C H A P. XXXV.'
O f the plain o f Marathon -7- Extr aft from Wheter — O f Rhamntis
battle of Marathon— .Defcriptibn from Paufamas— \
tfhe large barrow.
; T H E plain of Marathon is long and narrow. °PP°hte t0
the range of mountains, by which the village (lands, is the fea.
Pentele, with a lake -at the extremity,? as I nçted from one of
.the fummits, i s . the fouthern boundary. . At the other end is
alfo a ridge, the idhmus 6f a confidèrable
named. Cynofura. This is beyond a mardi or lake, from, which
a dream iffu e i;T,the water at the head fit^fbr cattle* but ^ lt near
the mouth and full of fea-fi(h. Many aquatic, birda, fuch as
we faw by the Gygæan lake, were flying about. The fod is
reputed exceedingly fertile. We rode through’ (pn^ verythick
corn of m o d luxuriant growth, and the badey*of this
antiently named Achilléan,. perhaps from its tallned.
:: W helkr, travelling, on in the plain, pafled by Marathon,
î and; eroded a river, which defeends from the mouflons riear it,
. and enters the- fea. Soon after-he canïe. to |fo# itam, o f which
the water feemed prefently to dagnate into a lake. or rather- a
-rnarfh or bog, at times almod dry ^ then covered withrufhes
- and weeds.. -Some caloyers or monks- of the convent of Pentele
. attend the filhery, which furnifliesi^very Targe eels^and look
after the budaloes, which are fond of feedings and .w&llowmg in
the. miré. By the fountain was ;-a i ruined town /apd achurda,
where he fuppofes Tricorythuf ■ dbod . j About a mille farttypf ton
:was a little village called Chouli,: inhabited :by Albanians^who
- had anodier, ullage o f the fame name on the mountains; .the
- cold forcing them to defeend with itheir battle/in winter, and
• y 2 the