ATHENS. 
Hereafter, in describing prospects, where our 
situation as spectators has been more elevated, 
and the view thereby rendered still more exten- 
sive, as well as the objects more numerous, we 
shall complete an entire circumference; noting 
our observations according to the points of a 
mariner's compass, after the plan adopted by 
Wheler. During the time that we were occu- 
pied in making our survey from this eminence, 
Lusieri began to trace the outlines of the inesti- 
mable view of Athens which he designed, and 
afterwards completed, upon this spot ; adding 
every colour, even the most delicate tints and 
touches of his pencil, while the objects he deli- 
neated were yet before his eyes'. We remained 
with him during the greater part of the day : 
and having now examined all the principal 
antiquities in the immediate vicinity of Athens, 
we returned by the gate leading to AXCHES- 
MUS, where the inscribed marble, relating to 
Hadrians reservoir for water at the foot of the 
(l) Iu this manner he finished his View of Constantinople, taken 
from an eminence ahove the Canal ; working with his colours in th 
open air. His rival, Fauvel, was not in Athens during the time of our 
visit; a Frenchman equally renowned, for his talents as an artist, his 
researches as an antiquary, and his disinterested attention to all 
travellers, whether of his own or of any other nation. 
