^/^^^/4 is a very goodly Cbampain, and fuIJof Catde , bun's 
all encoropaft with Hills, which are very roiigh and unhewn* 
LefmtQ is very pleafantly feated on the Gulf, which runs upas far 
as Gormtb ) and without the Town is one of the fineft Fountains 
I faw in Grw^, very rich in veins of Water, and Ciaded with 
huge Plane-eree^^ no: inferiour in any thing to the Spring of 
CajldU on Mount f^mafas^ which runs through Delphos^cxcGpt 
in this, that one was chofen by the Mufes, and the other not ; and 
Poetical fancies have given immortality to the one, and never 
mentioned the other» 
Delphos it felf is very ftrangely fcituated on a rugged hill , to 
which you have anafcencof fonietwoor three leagues ^ and yet 
that is not a quarter of the way to conieuptothe Pique of Far- 
mjfffs^onthe dckof which hill it Hands. It feems very barren to 
the eye ; but the Fruits are very good, where there are any. The 
Wines are excellent, and the Plants and Simples, which are found 
there, very fragrant and of great efficacy. 
About LebadiAi and all through E^otia, the Plains are very fer- 
tile, and make amends for thebarrennefs of t-he Hills which encom- 
pafsthem : But in Winter they are ape to be overflown for that 
f eafon, and to be turn*d into Lakes ; which renders ihcB^oJia^^ 
Air very thick, and fo were their Skulls too, if the Ancients may 
be believed concerning them ; though Phdar ^ who was one that 
fablimated Poetry to its higheft exaltation , and is much fancied 
and imitated in our Age, as he was admired in his own , was born 
there; And Amfhion^ who was faid to be fo divine in his Mufick, 
that he ravifln the very ftones, had skill enoiigh to entice them to 
makeup the Walls of 7hebes: So that not every thing that*s born 
in a dull Air,is dulKThefe Vales I found much planted with Cotton^ 
and Sejamum^zv^d Cummm^of which they make great profit and a 
great trade at Ti&^^^'J and Lebadia, 
I went from T/&^/'e^ into the lUand of Eub^^ov Negropont^zviA 
faw the jE^^r//>//;, which ebbs and flows much after the nature of our 
Tides ; only the Moon, and f ometimes Winds,make irregular^Tha 
Channel, which runs between the Townjand a Cafl:Ie,Vbic]iftands 
in an i fland over againft it, is fome fifty feet broad ^ and there are 
three Mills on it , which fhew all the changes and varieties that 
happen in the Current^Near the Euripus and oppofiteto the Town^ 
theylhewa Porr^ which they fay. was AulU^ and it is not impro- 
bable ; 
