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two versts of the Monastery of St. George, we ch A p. 
fancied we had found the actual fane of the 1 *, — 
dannon virgin, described by Strabo as situate 
upon the Parthenian Promontory. We came to 
a ruined structure, with decisive marks of 
remote antiquity: its materials, of the most 
massive stone, were laid together without any 
cement. Part of the pavement and walls were 
still visible. From this spot our view of the 
Aia Bvrvn was taken ; but the scale of the 
representation did not allow the introduction of 
the Ruin into the fore-ground A The elevation 
of the visible horizon towards the sea, which 
has so singular an appearance in the Plate, is 
not exaggerated 2 3 . 
Soon afterwards, we arrived, for the second 
time, at the Monastery of St. George : of this 
place our friend Pallas afterwards published an 
(2) See the Quarto Edition. 
(3) Once, descending from the summit of Mount Vesuvius , (where a 
similar scope of vision is presented,) as the atmosphere became more 
than usually clear, the author was to the highest degree astonished, 
to°t being conscious of his own elevation, to behold the Islands of 
I entoliena and Ponza actually appearing above the clouds, ami, as it 
Were, in the sky, far above what seemed the line of the visible horizon. 
Arsons arc now living who witnessed at the same time that remarkable 
spectacle, lie has since beheld similar phamomena both in the Hebrides 
ail d in the Archipelago ; but if such appearances were to be engraven, 
they might be deemed unfaithful representations, by persons who have 
never seen any thing of the same nature. 
