140 ISLAND OF PAROS. 
C1 Ji AR Chandler, in his Travels in Greece, describes the 
v ' v -' Nymphteum near Vary in Attica ; and gives three 
inscriptions 1 , one of which purports that "Archi- 
damus made the Cave for the Nymphs? In an- 
other inscription, found in the same Care of the 
Nymphs, the latter part, whether designedly or 
not, is an Iambic trimeter 3 . In the Cory dan 
Cave, the existence of which was discovered 
by the author in a subsequent part of these 
Travels, although he did not then visit the 
place 3 , some of his friends found an inscription 
to Pan and the Nymphs* i therefore this kind of 
dedication was common in Greece. The marble 
in both these quarries was excavated by the 
Origin of light of lamps ; and to this circumstance Pliny 
the Work. J 
attributes one of its names, Lychnites*. The 
EUROPA: " Ultimus mihi carminis versus fuisse videtur : 'H St 
znati, Ztiiis yin-r tuiritt rufifn' quique sequitur versus bujus poematu 
conditore indignus." MO2XOT EIATAAION '. p.353. L.Bat. 1781. 
(1) See luscript. Antiq. p. 76. 
(2) (ptxoiufi KoftfZf afTgcr f&fynreirt. 
(3) See " Tomb tf Alcxandei," p. 153. Camb. 1805. 
(4) nnnfitfaii. The inscription was discovered by Mr. (HOW Sir 
William) Cell. Mr. Raikes found also here a small terra-cotta 
vessel, elegantly formed, which the Antients had left, as a vow, in 
the cave. 
(5) " Omnes autem candido marmore usi sunt e Paro insula, quern 
lapidem coepere LYCHNI TEN appellare, quoniam ad lucernas in cuniculis 
caederetur." Pliu. Hist. Nut. ft&.xxxvi. c. 5. torn. 111. />.468. L.Bat. 
1635. 
