ATHENS. 347 
has been already published by Chandler, who CHAP. 
takes no notice of the place where it was origi- > -,- * 
nally discovered ; but as it may be consulted in 
the works of that author, we shall not offer it a 
second time to the public 1 . 
From this Monastery it is practicable to ride 
the whole way to the summit of Hymettus; but 
we preferred walking, that we might the more 
leisurely examine every object, and collect the 
few plants in flower at this late season of the 
year*. We saw partridges in great abundance; visit to the 
., Summit of 
and bees, in all parts ot the mountain ; not only the Moun- 
at the Monastery, where a regular apiary is 
kept, but also in such number dispersed and 
feeding about the higher parts of Hymettus, that 
the primeval breed 3 may still exist among the 
numerous wild stocks which inhabit the hollow 
trees and clefts of the rocks. Their favourite 
food, the wild Thyme (e^yXXov, Thymus Ser- 
pyllum, Linn.}, in almost every variety, grows 
(1) Vid. Inscript Antiq. p. 64. AAAOTKO, x. r.X. 
(2) Our specimens were all lost in the wreck of the Princessa mer- 
chantman ; but JVheler has given a catalogue of the plants collected 
by him in the month of February, upon this mountain. See Journey 
into Greece, Book VI. p. 414. Land. 1682. 
(3) The Antients believed that bees were first bred here, and that 
all other bees were but colonies from this mountain. 
