PANORAMIC VIEW OF ATHENS. 



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of two imaginary lines, one drawn from the figures at the side, the 

 other from the letters at the top of the plate. The right side of 

 Plate II. connects with the left of Plate I., and continues the subject. 



Plate I. Aspect from N. E. to N. W. 



A. 1. Part of Hymettus. This mountain is now famous, as it was 

 formerly, for the honey produced from the flowers on it. Strabo, 1. ix. 

 580. Its quarries also were equal to those of Pentelicus. Paus. 1. 



B. 2. Entrance to the Stadium Panathenaicum. It was built of 

 Pentelican marble, Paus. 1. i. The form is tolerably perfect ; but 

 the seats are destroyed ; and of the prodigious quantity of marble 

 used, according to Pausanias, in its construction, only some broken 

 fragments remain. 



A. 3. The situation of the fountain Enneakrounos. " Thucyd. 1. ii. 



A. 4. The bed of the Ilissus. It is now quite dry, except after the 

 storms of winter. It was not very deep anciently, for Socrates and 

 his companion, and Plato, speak of walking through it barefoot. 

 Plato, Phaed. The banks of the Ilissus are now almost entirely destitute 

 of buildings, although anciently adorned with temples ; nor are they 

 overshadowed, as formerly, with planes. See Paus. i., and consult 

 Plato's beautiful description of the scenery in its vicinity, in Phaedro. 



[The manner in which the Ilissus is mentioned by the ancient 

 writers, does not lead us to suppose that it was a constant or regular 

 stream. " What a flow of words is here (says Cratinus, speaking of 

 an orator,) " Ilissus is in his throat." These expressions refer rather 

 to a torrent, than an equable current of water. As however the 

 rocky channel near the town, according to Mr. Raike's observation, 

 seems to have been widened and formed by art, the stream anciently 

 may have been more abundant than it is at present. 



Wheler in three different parts of his work mentions the waters 

 of the Eridanus and Ilissus being collected together, and carried 

 under ground to supply the city ; 352. 378. 450. Thucydides 



