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pied by the little village of Turcochorio ; this hamlet is at the en- 

 trance of the pass through the mountains leading from the plain of 

 the Cephissus to Opus and Thermopylae. Drymea was above Elatea, 

 and some remains of an ancient fortress on a hill seem to mark its 

 situation. On the right bank of the Cephissus, was Tithronium, 

 and in the plain, at the roots of Parnassus, were Charadra, and Am- 

 phiclea ; a palaio-castro, at the entrance of a road, across Parnassus 

 to Delphi, appears to point out the position of the first. Between 

 this place and Velizza, are some small remains of an ancient fort at a 

 village called Thathia. On the road, over the tops of Parnassus, 

 from Charadra to Delphi, may be placed Lilaea at the village now 

 called Aghourea. Then Ledon and Velizza (Tithorea) where are 

 walls and towers * of ancient construction. The north part of the 

 plain of Chaeronea, was a portion of Phocis ; the frontier town in this 

 part was Panope, the walls of which are still in existence ; the acropolis 

 was on a rugged height ; the city itself was partly in a plain, and 

 near it is the modern village of Agios Blasios. The position of 

 Daulis is pointed out by the modern appellation Thavlia f, a village 

 very pleasantly situated on Parnassus, and by a palaio-castro forming 

 an acropolis, on an abrupt isolated mountain. The route from Dau- 

 lis to Ambryssus, the modern Distomo, passes the o$c; o-^o-t^, the di- 

 vided way, the sacred road to Delphi. Ambryssus is on an elevated 

 plain about an hour's distance from the sea. 



Herodotus relates that the towns of Phocis were burnt, and 

 destroyed, with their temples and public buildings, when Xerxes 

 invaded Greece, after the battle of Thermopylae. The remains in 

 this country of walls and towers of the most solid construction are 

 those probably with which the Phocian cities were surrounded after 



* These are described in Dr. Clarke's account of Tithorea. See Appen. to Tomb of 

 Alexander. 



f An inscription found at Thavlia, by the Earl of Aberdeen, and published in this 

 volume, confirms the conjecture in the text. 



