58 ritOSEEPINA. 



And phantoms from the crags and solid earth 

 As fast as a musician scatters sounds 



Out of his instrument." 







Then came the pine region, sacred especially to Pan and 

 Maenalus, the son of Lycaon and brother of Callisto ; and 

 yon had better remember this relationship carefully, for 

 the sake of the meaning of the constellations of Ursa 

 Major and the Mons Msenalius, and of their wolf and 

 bear traditions ; (compare also the strong impression on 

 the Greek mind of the wild leafiness, nourished by snow, 

 of the Boeotian Cithseron, u Oh, thou lake-hollow, full of 

 divine leaves, and of wild creatures, nurse of the snow, 

 darling of Diana," (Phoenissse, 801). How wild the cli- 

 mate of this pine region is, you may judge from the pieces 

 in the note below * out of Colonel Leake's diary in cross- 



* March 3rd. We now ascend the roots of the mountain called Kas- 

 tania, and begin to pass between it and the mountain of Alonistena, 

 which is on our right. The latter is much higher than Kastania, and, 

 like the other peaked summits of the Ma3nalian range, is covered with 

 firs, and deeply at present with snow. The snow lies also in our pass. 

 At a fountain in the road, the small village of Bazemko is half a mile 

 on the right, standing at the foot of the Mamalian range, and now cov- 

 ered with snow. 



Saeta is the most lofty of the range of mountains, which are in face 

 of Levidhi, to the northward and eastward ; they are all a part of the 

 chain which extends from Mount Khelmos, and connects that great eum- 

 mit with Artemisium, Parthenium, and Parnon. Mount Saeta is cov- 

 ered with firs. The mountain between the plain of Levidhi and Alon- 

 istena, or, to speak by the ancient nomenclature, that part of the Mee- 



