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Themis locks*, that it would seem almost impos- CHAP. 
sible to mistake the spot. It was situate at v., .-'./ 
the promontory of Alcimus, where the land, orST" 
making an elbow, sheltered a part of the har- '^ of 
bour ; here, above the still water, might be seen tocles - 
the tomb. The base, although simple, as stated 
by Pausanias, is by Plutarch said to have been of 
no inconsiderable magnitude "; and the tomb 
itself, that is to say, the Soros, resembled an 
altar placed thereon. Guided by this clue, we 
felt almost a conviction that we had discovered 
all that now remains of this monument. The 
promontory alluded to by Plutarch constitutes 
the southern side of the entrance to the harbour 7 : 
jutting out from the Pirceean or Munychian 
peninsula, it forms, with the opposite promontory 
of Eetion, the natural mouth of the port, lying 
towards the ivest, that is to say, beyond the 
artificial piers whereby it was inwardly closed 8 . 
(5) ntgi TW Z.if&i>a TOU nn^cciuSt afa rou X.X.TCC TTH "AZ.xiuoi axgtvvnglev, 
ffaxtiTcti <ri; aim ayxuv. xai Ka/j.^/a.tn Tat/Tar \VTO;, h TO vfoviitv rr,f 
IttXttrriis, tt^n-rl; Itrrif ilfttyilfnf, xcti ro srsjl aurriv (lufj.oiiSis, rafat ft" 
Q'.ft.KrT)x>.iv;. Plutarch, in extremo Themitt. torn. I. Land. 1729. 
(6) Eiftt-yitif. 
(7) Voy. Barthel. "Plan det Environs d'Atheiies pour le Voyage du 
Jeune /Inacharsis." Troisi^me edit, a Paris, 1790. 
(8) " Ut non tantum arte tutus, sed naturi etiam esset." MeurtU 
Piraeus, ap. Cronov. Thes. Gr. torn. V. p. 1935. L. Sat. 1699. 
