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APPROACH TO ATHENS. 
CHAP, part of the antient rampart ; but it was eight 
o'clock A.M. October the twenty-ninth, before we 
brought the vessel to an anchor off the custom- 
house, in a good sandy bottom, and about four 
fathoms water. Seven or eight fathoms may be 
found nearer to the mouth, and eleven between 
the two piers; the bottom shelving into fifteen 
and twenty fathoms in the outer port, with good 
anchorage '. 
Approach 
to Athens. 
At ten o'clock, we landed ; and having mounted 
our horses, took the antient road to the city, by 
the indistinct remains of the walls of Conon 2 , the 
Sepulchre of Menander, and the Cenotaph of Euri- 
pides. It were useless to relate the feelings 
with which we viewed the grandest and most 
affecting sight that hath been left for modem 
times. The Classical Reader, already con- 
vinced that nothing exists upon earth to equal 
(1) As an extraordinary event in the history of the Piraeus, it may 
be mentioned, that the author's brother, Captain Clarke of the Royal 
Navy, brought an English frigate, the Braakel, to an anchor withiu 
this port ; but not without considerable damage to the ship. The 
Athenians flocked in crowds to witness this extraordinary spectacle. 
See a narrative of the event, in the Notes to an edition of Falconer' 't 
Shipvireck, by the Rev. J. S. Clarke, LL.D. the BiograpJier of Nelson, 
Sfc. 8fc. 
(2) 'AW*TV Si i* ntifaiui, tfti-ria, ru> rn%vi , Kowt utv\(n rif 
ftt K'Ja vavf/.n^!as itirrtift. Pausan. Attica, c. 2. p. 7. Lips. 1696. 
