288 PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. ' TaNNO I676. 



The wines are excellent, and the plants and simples found there very fragrant, 

 and of great efficacy. 



About Lebadia, and all through Bceotia, the plains are very fertile, and make 

 amends for the barrenness of the hills which encompass them ; but in winter 

 they are apt to be overflown, and turned into lakes, which renders the Boeotian 

 air very thick. These vales I found much planted with cotton, and sesamum^ 

 and cummin, of which they make great profit, carrying on a great trade at 

 Thebes and Lebadia. 



From Thebes I went into the island of Euboea or Negropont, and saw the 

 Euripus, which ebbs and flows much after the manner of our tides ; only the 

 moon, and sometimes winds, make it irregular. The channel, which runs be- 

 tween the town and a castle, which stands in an island over against it, is about 

 50 feet broad, and there are three mills on it which show all the changes and 

 varieties that happen in the current. Near the Euripus, and opposite to the 

 town, is shown a port, which they say was Aulis, and it is not improbable; 

 -for it must be thereabouts. Between Negropont and Athens is a high hill, 

 called Agiomacuri, formerly very dangerous, but now guarded by Albaneses ; 

 it is part of Mount Parnassus : and near it on the left hand lies Mount Pentelicus, 

 from whence the Athenians anciently brought their stone; where is a new con- 

 vent of Calogeri, one of the richest of all Greece. 



In going from Athens by sea, I embarked in a port, which lies just by Mu- 

 nychia; that which they call Porto Piraso lies behind it, a mile distant, which 

 is a large port, able to contain 500 vessels. The ruins of the town are yet re- 

 maining, and of the walls, which joined it to the city of Athens. I sailed by 

 Porto Phalero, the ancient haven of Athens, which is rather a road than a port. 



Advertisements on the Finetum Britannicum, mentioned in the last foregoing 

 Number, sent to the Editor by the Rev. Dr. J. Beal, Rector of Yeovil in 

 Somersetshire, and one of his Majesty s Chaplains. N° 124, p. 583. 



There is nothing in this paper worth preserving. 



The Lunar Eclipse, An. 1676, Jan. 1, in the Morning, N. S. observed at 

 Dantzic by M. Hevelius. N°124, p. 589.=*= 



h m s 



Beginning of the penumbra 2 36 40 



Beginning of the eclipse 3 30 O 



The penumbra vanished 6 8 O 



* See on this eclipse Mr. Flamsteed's observation. No. 121 foregoing; also his and Cassini's re- 

 marks, in this same No. 124, just preceding. 



