178 VOYAGE TO ATHENS. 
CHAP, by hoary mosses, and by gloomy and naked 
tIL rocks; or by brighter surfaces reflecting the 
most vivid and varied tints, orange, red, and 
grey: to these he may add an account of distant 
summits, more intensely azured than the clear 
and cloudless sky of islands dimly seen 
through silvery mists upon the wide expanse of 
water shining, towards the horizon, as it were 
" a sea of glass :" and when he has exhausted 
his vocabulary, of every colour and shape 
exhibited by the face of Nature or by the works 
of Art, although he have not deviated from the 
truth in any part of his description, how little 
and how ineffectual has been the result of his 
undertaking ! 
As we passed the southern point of Macronisi, 
and drew nearer to the promontory, the temple 
upon the Cape appeared to the greatest advan- 
tage in which it is possible now to view it ' ; for 
it seemed to be entire, its deficiencies being 
concealed by the parts which yet remain un- 
injured. When we had doubled the southern 
(1) There is a very accurate representation of Cape Sim him and the 
Temple, engraved from a Drawing by Sir ff^illiam Cell, in the edition 
of Falconer'$ Shipwreck published by the Rev. James Stonier Clarke, 
LL.D. brother of the author of these Travels. 
