298 ATHENS. 
CHAP, observation, whence the situation of many 
* ,-..' other buildings of the antient city may be 
ascertained. 
Leaving the Theseum, we again visited the 
Areopagus; and we detached from the rock 
some specimens of the remarkable aggregate 
whereof this eminence consists. All the lower 
part of it, as before mentioned, consists of 
breccia ; but we found here a sparry carbonate of 
lime, of a honey colour, exhibiting, by fracture, 
imperfect prisms ranged parallel to each other. 
From the Areopagus we proceeded to a little 
chapel, situate upon the spot where the 
pirwan antient PIRJEEAN GATE of the city formerly 
stood: near to this, as Pausanias relates 1 , 
there was a tomb with an equestrian statue by 
Praxiteles. The place where the gate was 
situate may still be discerned ; and also a part 
of the northern limb of the " long legs" paxga, 
(TM\iriy extending from the city to the sea. We 
then ascended towards the north of the Pir&ean 
Gate 9 , where may still be seen, in a state of the 
most admirable preservation, the ground-plot 
(1) Pausania Jltica, c. c 2. p.G. Lips. l6.<)6. 
(2) See the Plan of Athens, engraved as a f'ignutte tc the preceding 
Chapter, Nos. 1, and 2. 
