ATHENS. 197 
letween the Grecian and Roman Buildings Athenian, 
Posidonian, and ^Eginetan Architecture Cause of the 
Injury sustained in the Sculpture of the Parthenon 
Splendid Representation of the Panathenaea Description 
of the Work The Cothurnus, and Petasus or Pileus 
Practice of gilding and painting Statues Marlles 
used in the Acropolis Singular Construction of the 
Erecthdum Of the Prytane'um Temples of Pandrosus 
and Minerva Polias Of the Olive, and Well Propylsea 
Walls of the Acropolis Odeum of Regilla General 
Description of the Theatres of Greece Areopagus 
Temple of Theseus. 
THIS road, from the Pirceeus to Athens, extend- CHAP. 
ing for about five miles, formerly passed over T ' _. 
marshy ground; for the foundations of the two 
long walls, which inclosed the Piraeus within 
the precincts of Athens, were, according to 
Plutarch, laid in a marshy soil, prepared for the 
purpose by being filled with huge pieces of 
rock '. An inference may be deduced from this 
circumstance, which does not seem to have 
been noticed; that the plains of Greece having 
evidently resulted from the retiring of waters 
gradually carried off by evaporation and by 
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vfrloov <rr.v elxaSafticcr, <rw 2t tr/>tu<rr,v hy.t\iu<rir, lis rofeu; t>.u3n; KCU S/a/Sfa- 
, tregiotroi za 
Plutarchi Cimon. torn. III. p. 125. Land. 1723. 
