ATHENS. 211 
liave attracted more notice in this country CHAP. 
since, than before, Whelers time; and they *...., v . ./ 
always tended rather to maintain than to 
confute the erroneous' notion, which was so 
long prevalent, concerning the condition of 
the city 1 . Guilletieres diminutive publica- 
tion is nevertheless so comprehensive, that, 
abating a few partial inaccuracies, the conse- 
quences of pursuing an untrodden path, his 
book is, even at the present day, a useful guide 
to the antiquities of Athens; and his plan of the 
city, rude as it may appear among the works of 
later artists, is so much better than that which 
Whder afterwards edited, that it is strange the 
latter did not adopt it in his work. 
As we ascended the steep rock on which the ^ sce " t rf 
til G ^"1 i. TQ m 
Citadel stands, our first subject of wonder was p 1 **- 
the power displayed by the Antients in con- 
veying up such an acclivity the enormous 
masses of marble necessary in the construction 
of so many sumptuous edifices ; when all the 
skill and in^enuitv of the best workmen in 
< * V 
(1) One of those Letters is from a native of Nattplia: it was written 
in 1575. Its author says, " 'AAAa rl rut 'Aftiiut p.iwfa'is, (ta-r.^nyu -, 
Hap* kufl&mt no a-Xa/ <rart ^eaav. Sed quid multa de Athenis dico ? 
Superest hodie tautum pellis : animal ipsum olim periit." Vid. Epist. 
Fam. Turcogrcecia , lib. vii. p. 430. Basil. 1583. 
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