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not have pursued its course to Phalerum ; it must have continued its 

 direction towards Pirseus. In fact, Strabo observes in the same book, 

 that the walls were no longer standing.] Ed. 



L. 7. Distant summit of Cithseron. Strabo, 1. ix. 



Plate III. Aspect from S. W. to S. E. 



A. 1 Distant summit of Cithaeron. 



B. 2. The old road to the, Pirseus, with the marks of the ancient 

 chariot-wheels worn in the rock. 



C. 3. Mount iEgaleos. It was not on the summit of this mountain, 

 as some suppose, but at the foot of it, that Xerxes sat. Herod. 1. viii. 



D. 4. Distant mountain of the Peloponnesus, perhaps Cyllene, on 

 the confines of Arcadia. 



E. 5. The Acro-Corinthus. 



F. 6. The island Salamis, the birth-place of Ajax, Strabo, 1. ix. 

 iEschyl. Pers. 366. « 



H. 8. The Piraeus, distant five miles from Athens. This is also 

 the distance given by Thucy. 1. ii. and Strabo, 1. ix. In different 

 parts of the road, the ruins of the long walls* are visible, consisting 

 of large blocks of stone, scattered loosely around. The marks of the 

 chariot-wheels in the rock are evident also. Of the former splen- 

 dour and busy throng of the Piraeus, nothing now remains. A mo- 

 nastery dedicated to St. Spiridion, and a Turkish custom-house, are 

 the only buildings there. One or two small merchant vessels and a 

 few boats frequent the harbour, once filled with the numerous galleys 

 of Athens. The remains of the outer walls near the sea are con- 

 siderable ; in some places four tiers of stones may be counted. The 

 port is a beautiful bay, well landlocked, f- 



* See Note, p. 559. 



f Although some of the excavations in the rock at the Pirseus and near the Museum hill 

 may have served as sepulchres, yet it is more probable that they were places in which 

 the Athenians were forced to dwell, when, during the Peloponnesian war, they quitted 

 "their beautiful and ornamented country -residences," and were straightened for room in 

 the city. The words of Thucydides are, — KaA« xtyi^utx x«t« t>jv %wp«v <uxo§ofJ«ij ts 

 kol) 7ToXvTs\s<ri xaTacrxeuaif. Lib. ii. The scholiast on the Equi. of Aristoph. mentions the 

 want of room in the city, and their dwelling in caves, — h Toi$ <nrrj\oitoi; uxow t*j <jn<km 

 — Ed. 



