550 PANORAMIC VIEW OF ATHENS. 



alarm * occasioned by the news of its defection. In confirmation 

 of which, I shall observe that Euboea, if we except the two plains of 

 Oreus and Lelantus, could never have been a fruitful island, nor could 

 the produce of the plain of Lelantus alone, or even that of the two 

 plains, have been sufficient for the main supply of such a population 

 as that of Attica. 



If we take this view of the Euripus, we shall be at no loss to 

 account for the importance attached by the Athenians at all periods, 

 to the possession of a fortified sea-port, on so remote a part of their 

 frontier as Oropus, or for the reasons which induced the Thebans, 

 when they had captured that town, to remove it seven stadia from 

 the sea. 



PANORAMIC VIEW OF ATHENS ILLUSTRATED 



BY W. HAYGAKTH, ESQ. 



1 HE hill of MusEeus is a rocky ridge of land to the S. W. of the 

 Acropolis ; Athens with the most celebrated of its ruins, the Saronic 

 gulf, the shores of Argolis, the citadel of Corinth, and the distant 

 mountains of the Peloponnesus, names awakening a thousand 

 interesting associations, are visible from its summit. During my 

 residence at Athens, I employed some of my time in making a sketch 

 of the surrounding scene. The plates containing the panoramic view 

 are faithful copies of it. Beginning on the right hand of plate first, 

 I shall proceed in my description towards the left. The reader will 

 be able to find every place very exactly by marking the intersection 



* It is true indeed that the defection of Euboea took place at a time when the Lacedae- 

 monians, by having gained the ascendancy on the sea, were able to intercept the supplies of 

 corn which the Athenians drew from the Thracian Chersonesus and the Euxine, and this 

 may have rendered the loss even of a small supply from Euboea very sensible ; but their 

 chief supply on this side of the jEgojan, as I have observed, must have been derived 

 through the Euripus, from Macedonia. 



