250 ATHENS. 
ver Y heating; and persons who eat much of it 
are liable to fever. We tasted the wine of 
Athens, which is unpleasant to those who are 
not accustomed to it, from the quantity of resin 
and lime infused as substitutes for brandy. 
After dinner we examined the remains of the 
PROPYL^A; concerning which we have little to 
add to the remarks already published. Over the 
entrance may be seen one of those enormous 
slabs of marble, called marble beams by Wheler^\ 
and to which Pausanias particularly alluded, 
when, in describing the Propylaea, he says, that, 
even in his time, nothing surpassing the beauty 
of the workmanship, or the magnitude of the 
stones used in the building, had ever been seen 2 . 
We have since compared the dimensions of this 
slab with those of an architrave of much greater 
size, namely, that which covers the entrance to 
the great sepulchre at My cent? ; for it is re- 
markable that Pausanias, who would have men- 
tioned the fact if he had seen the latter, gives a 
very detailed account of the ruins of that city, 
and yet takes no notice of the most prodigious 
mass perhaps ever raised for any purpose of 
(1) Journey into Greece, Book V. p. 359. Land. 1632. 
(2) T S* njawt/Xa/z AiV Xit/xaw TI eoe'pr.t I%H, Ktti xeffty KCU fayitti rr 
uV ft'i%>i yi x.eu i/ttv Vfei7%t. I'ausaniec Attica, c. 21. j>. 51. Lips. 1696. 
