$GZ STUDIES OF NATURE. 



" palaces, and from it's being the refidence of the 

 *' great Agamemnon.** 



After he had thus fpoken, they crofled a part of 

 the forefl of Mount Lyceunn, toward the Eaft, 

 and defcended into a little valley, flieltered from 

 the winds. Afrefh and downy herbage covered the 

 fides of it's hills. At the bottom flowed a rivulet 

 called Achelous(i), which falls into the river AN 

 pheus, whofe iilands, covered with alders and lin- 

 den trees, are perceptible at a diftance from the 

 plain. The trunk of an old willow, laid low by 

 the hand of time, ferved as a bridge to the Ache- 

 lous; this bridge had no ledging, except fome 

 large reeds, which grew on each fide of it ; but 

 the brook, the bottom of which was paved with 

 rocks, was fo eafily forded over, and fo little ufe 

 had been made of the bridge, that the convol- 

 volus almoft entirely covered it with it's heart- 

 (haped foliage, and with flowers refembling white 

 fpires. 



At a little diftance from this bridge ftood the 

 dwelling of tirteus. It was a fmall houfe, co- 

 vered with thatch, built in the middle of a moflTy 

 ground. Two poplars formed a ihade for it to the 

 Weft. On the South- fide, a vine furrounded the 

 doors and windows, with it's purple clufters, and 

 with it's leaves, already of the colour of fire. An 



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