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Acropolis: but before Wheler arrived in. Athens, it CHAP. 
had been seen and very curiously described by 
Guilletiere, whose account of the notions enter- 
tained concerning it by the inhabitants exactly 
corresponds with all that Pausanias had related 
of its antient history 4 . The existence of the 
well, in such a remarkable situation, identifies 
the Erecthcum better than any proof derived 
from the present appearance of the building. 
We dined with Signer Lusieri and the artists 
who were his fellow-labourers in the Acropolis, 
upon a boiled kid and some rice. Honey from 
Mount Hymettus was served, of such extraor- 
dinary toughness and consistency, although 
quite transparent, that the dish containing it 
might be turned with its bottom upwards without 
spilling a drop ; and the surface of it might also 
be indented with the edge of a knife, yielding to 
the impression without separation, like a mass 
of dough. As an article of food, it is reckoned 
(4) " Au sortir du temple nous vtmes, <\ cinquante pas <le Ik, ce puys 
clbre, dout on a toujours parle comme d'une des merveilles de la 
Nature ; et adjourd'huy les Athlniens le content pour uue des plus 
curieuses raret&s de leur pays. Son eau est salee, et a la couleur de celle 
de la mer : toutes les fois que le vent du midy souffle, elle est agite'e, et 
fait un grand bruit dans le fond du puys." Voyage (FAthenes, p. 298, 
h Paris, 1675. 
