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,did not believe it even in thofe times. lob* 

 ferved, that by the contrivance of a vaulted 

 pafTage to it, the light is very artfully 

 thrown into the we'll j and, according to 

 the time of the day, or fpot on which 

 the operator ilood, the image reflecled 

 by the looking glafs, would be ftronger 

 or fainter as the manager plcaled. If the 

 image reiledled was ftrong, and feemingly 

 healthy, then the prognoflic was good ; 

 but, if faint or pale, bad. No doubt, but 

 the priefts and fervants of this oracle in- 

 formed themfelves well of the ftate of the 

 fick perfon, before they riflvcd the credit 

 of the oracle by the prognoftic. The 

 Greeks in Patras firmly believe, that St 

 Andrew was crucified nigh this well, and 

 numbers of them refort to it the firft 

 Sunday of Lent, to drink of the waters 

 of it as a preventer of difeafes. 'J his 

 fuperftition probably arifes from a tra- 

 dition of the antient miraculous circum?- 

 Ilanccs attending this wcil, though the 

 mode of cori^ralting it is forgot. 



Wk climbed FarnalTus, to fee the ruins 

 of Delphos, in our way to this place. 



That 



