, 14 . ATHENS. 
CHAP, view of the Acropolis preserved upon an antient 
medal of Athens in the Collection at Paris*. It 
is below the right wing of the Propyltea, or 
antient vestibules of the Citadel, in the situation 
which Pausanias assigns for it: and somewhat 
lower in the rock is the fountain mentioned also 
by him 2 . In other respects, it seems ill suited 
to the stories which caused it to be considered 
as the scene of Apollo's amours with Creusa, and 
as a place of residence for Pan : but when the 
mind is completely subdued by superstition, it 
is seldom burdened by any scruples as to proba- 
bility : the same priests who now exhibit at 
Jerusalem, the altar of a small chapel as the 
Hill of the Crucifixion 3 are a modern example of 
the Nao^wXa*!; who attended the Shrine of Pan, 
and they possess a degree of intellect as well 
calculated for admitting the extravagances re- 
lated of the one as of the other. The Grotto, as 
it now appears, seems to be nothing more than 
one of those niches in which votive offerings 
(1) See the Greek Coin engraved for Sarthelemy's Anachursis, 
Tab. XX VII. No. 1. Paris, 1790. 
(2) KetTK^afi o\ tun \; T^V KKTU 9roA.it, aXA.' 'oaoi i/tro TO, vroo&ti\a.ici, 
xvyn TI Sharif Iffri, xai -jr^aiai "A^raA-Aa/vs? iigcv Iv svn\a,'mf, xai Ilavo'j. 
Pausania, lib. i. cap. 28. p. 68. Lips. 169G. 
(3) See Vol. W. of the Octavo edition of these Travels, Chap. VII, 
p,3)8. 
