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markably fharp and feen irgly invi- 

 gorating than below ; and 1 obferved that 

 the kids and goats feeding there were 

 more frisky than any I had feen. Proba- 

 bly this was accidental, though it is not al- 

 together unreafonable to fnppofe, that the 

 air pofTefTed an invigorating and brace- 

 ing quality, which formerly gave fuch 

 gaiety and alacrity to the fliepherds and 

 flocks, when they went to the tops of thofe 

 rocks, that it was imagined to be occafi- 

 oned by an infpiration from the crannies 

 of the mountain; and we read that it was 

 for the benefit of this h.o\j fatus, that the 

 Pythean goddefs or preiftefs firft gave her 

 anfwers from the tops of thefe rockb ; but 

 afterwards, for the convenience of a better 

 fituation, they were given from a certairt 

 place in the temple of Apollo immediate- 

 ly under the two rocky heads of ParnalTus. 

 Some pieces of well built ilrong marble 

 walls of the temple and other public edr- 

 fices, are the only remains to be found inr 

 this place, except the fladium, which ftill 

 preferves its form and many of its feats. 



