RUINS OF IOULIS. 169 
found at IOULIS, there is something like an 
internal evidence of the fact in the remarkable 
records preserved upon the marble itself; not 
only with regard to Simonides the poet, who was 
a native of the city, but also of his descendant 
Simonides son of Leoprepis, who explained at 
Athens the principles of a Mvypovixov, or 
scheme for artificial memory, of which he was 
the inventor. The antient road from IOULIS to 
Carth&a, the finest thing of the kind, says 
Tournefort*, which perhaps can be found in all 
Greece, yet exists. He traced it for three miles 
in extent, flanking the sides of the hills, and 
sustained by a strong wall, of which the coping 
consisted of immense blocks of a greyish stone, 
having the property of splitting like the slate 
used in the Grecian Isles for covering houses 
and chapels. The remains of IOULIS are now 
called HOA12 by the inhabitants of Zia. They 
cover the top of a promontory, to the south- 
south-east of the present town; the base of 
which is washed by the sea, although it were a 
league distant from it in the time of Strabo. 
The ruins of the Acropolis are upon the point of 
the Cape; and somewhat farther from the 
shore the temple is conspicuous, in the magnifi- 
es) Voy. du Lev. torn. II. p. 1C. Lym, 1717. 
