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from wliicli, in the interior, is situate the free town of Delphi \ 

 at the foot of Monnt Parnassus^ and ha^ang the most cele- 

 brated oracle of Apollo throughout the whole world. There is 

 the Fountain too of Castalia^, and the river Cephisus"* which 

 flows past Delphi, rising in the former city of Lila?a*. Besides 

 these, there is the town of Crissa^ and that of Anticyra", with 

 the Bulenses^; as also Naulochum^, Pyrrha, Amphissa^", 

 exempt from all tribute, Tithrone, Tritea'\ Ambry sus^-, and 

 Dryma?a^^, which district has also the name of Daulis. The 

 extremity of the gulf washes one corner of Bceotia, with its 

 towns of Siphae''* and Thebes ^^ surnamed the Corsian, in the 



1 Tlie modem village of Kastri stands on part of the site of ancient 

 Delphi. Its ruins have been explored by Chandler, Leake, and Uhichs. 



- The two highest summits of the range of Parnassus in the vichiity 

 of Delphi were Tithorea, now Yehtza, to the N.W., and Lycorea, now 

 Liakm-a, to the N.E. Its rocks above Delphi were called the Phsedriadea 

 or " Resplendent." 



3 The famed Castahp.n spring is now called the Fountain of St. John, 

 from the chapel of thai saint wliich stands close to its soiirce. 



* Now the Mavro-Potamo. 



5 Its ruuis are still to be seen about tliree leagues from Kastri. 



^ Or Crisso. It was situate inland to the S.W. of Delplii. Its ruins 

 ai'e to be seen at a short distance from the modem village of Chryso. 



7 It is supposed that the few ruins seen near the modern Aspra Spitia 

 are those of tliis place. It was famous for its hellebore, which was ex- 

 tensively used for the cure of madness. There were two other places oi 

 the same name. 



8 The people of Bulls, near the Crisssean Gulf. Its riuns are situate 

 at a short distance from the monastery of Dobe. 



9 Ansart suggests that tliis was the present port of Agio-Sideri or 

 Djespliina. 



^" It occupied the site of the modem Salona ; the walls of its ancient 

 Acropohs are stiU to be seen. It was the chief town of the Locri 

 Ozolae. 



^^ Pouqueville thmks that the niins seen near Moulki are those of Ti- 

 tlu-one, and that Tritea stood on tlie site of the present Turcochorion. 



^2 Or Amphrysus, famous for the strength of its fortifications and its 

 scarlet berries for djeing. Some remains of it are to be seen at the 

 modem village of Dhistomo. 



' ^3 Qn the frontiers of Doris and Phocis. T.eake thinks that its ruins 

 are those seen midway between Kamares and ( 'lamista. Daulis was aho 

 the name of an ancient town of Phocis, the ruins of wliich are to be seen 

 at the modem village of Dhavha. 



^•* Probably the present Pala?o Kastro, at flic Port de Dobrena or Polaca. 



^^ Leake tliinks that tlie Corsian Thebet-, a port of Ua-olia, is repre- 

 Bentod by the modem Khosia. 



