er th’ Atlantic flood he sails, 
_ Wafted safe by prosp’rous gales ; 
; uile lenient mallows nurture me, 
With olives, and wild succory. 
like wats Latonian progeny, then grant 
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THE author of this pamphlet, we 
presume to be Mr. Clarke, of the univer- 
_ $ity of Cambridge; who, accompanied 
by another gentleman of the same uni- 
__-Yersity, was lately engaged in a tour in 
_ Greece, and the neighbouring islands, 
from which they returned with a collec- 
tion of literary and antique monuments 
of great value, procured in the course of 
their progress. Among these was a 
fragment of a statue of colossal size, 
found among the ruins of the celebrated 
temple of Ceres, at Eleusis, and supposed 
to represent the goddess herself. ‘The ob- 
ject of this pamphlet is to collect the testi- 
monies of former travellers respecting the 
existence of this bust or statue; to ascer- 
tain the object which it was intended to 
_ fepresent ; and to give a narrative of the 
means used to procure this ancient mo- 
qument, and the difficulties which at- 
tended its removal. Theformer writers, 
hose testimonies are here quoted, are 
Vheler, Spon, Pococke, and Chandler. 
these authorities is added that of 
Montfaucon, The Kaaadvoy, or holy bas- 
ket on the head of this statue, has given 
"ise, we are told, to an opiniog, that it 
_ was intended, not for the goddess Ceres, 
_ but a canephora. This hypothesis is, 
we think, satisfactorily disproved by the 
_ observations adduced by the author of 
‘the pamphlet. The passage which will 
prove most interesting to general readers, 
_isthat which describes the difficulties ac- 
_ companying the removal of the statue, 
which are thus related : 
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_ « The difficulties to be encountered were 
—pottrivial. It was first necessary to purchase 
the statue from the waiwode, or governor of 
hens, who alone had power to dispose of 
its removal; the attendance of a Turkish of- 
‘ a of conveying itaway. The old quay of 
_ Eleusis, consisting of immense blocks of 
~ TESTIMONIES RESPECTING’ THE COLOSSAL STATUE OF CERES, 
.- Afirman was then to be obtained for - 
ficer to enforce the order ; and a vessel capa- 
“439 
One only boon, ’tis all I want ; 
Let me enjoy the good I find 
With perfect health, and perfect mind ; 
Respected be my hoary age, - 
And let the lyre my latest hours engage 
- ANTIQUITIES AND MYTHOLOGY. 
' 7. V. Testimonies of different Authors, respecting the colossal Statue of Ceres, placed in 
the Vestibule of the public Library at Cambridge. Svo. pp. 25. 
marble, broken and disordered, required re- 
paration. Across the chasms, where the 
stones were waating, it was necessary to place 
pieces of timber, as temporary bridges, that 
the statue might be conveyed to the utmost 
extremity of the quay, where a sulficient 
depth of water would admit the approach of 
large boats. 
«« When all these preliminaries were ad- 
justed, which required equal promptvess and 
secresy, amidst the opposition to be expecied 
from a herd of idle and mercenary Greeks, 
acting as consuls to different nations; in 
what manner could a foreigner, without any 
mechanical aid, expect to raise a mass of that 
magnitude, and convey it over rocks and ruins 
from its station at Eleusis to the sea? 
«© Athens afforded a rope of twisted herbs, 
and a few large nails.. A small saw about 
six inches in length, an axe, and some long 
poles, were found at Eleusis. The stoutest 
of these poles were cut in pieces and nailed in 
a triangular form, having transverse beams 
at the vertex and base. Weak as this ma- 
chine was, it acquired considerahle strength 
by the weight of the statue when placed on 
the transverse beams. With the remainder 
of the poles were made rollers, over whigh 
the machine might move. The rope was 
then made fast to each extremity of the trans- 
verse beams at the vertex. Simple as this 
contrivance was, it succeeded, when perhaps 
more complicate machinery might have failed ; 
anda mass or marble, weighing near two 
tons, was moved over the brow of the hill, or 
Acropolis of Eleusis, and from thence to the 
sea, in about nine hours. 
«« An hundred peasants were collected from 
the village and neighbourhood of Elensis, and 
near fifty boys. The peasants were ranged 
forty on each side to work at the ropes, the 
rest being employed with levers to raise the 
machine when rocks or large stones opposed 
its progress. The boys who were not strong 
enough to work at the ropes and levers, were 
employed in taking up the ysollers as fast_as 
thefmachine left them, and in placing them 
déein in front. 
‘** But the superstition of the inhabitants 
of Eleusis, respecting an idol, which thiey all 
regarded as the protectress of their fields, was 
— * Those who have visited Turkey, know the difficulty of making such a purchase. 
Ls gers other absurd notions which the Turks, and even some of the Greeks, have about fo- 
| feiguers, they believe such stones are only sought for the gold they contain; and this gold, 
Mot in the form of ore, Lut ready coined fine glitiering sequins.” a i 
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