MEGARA TO ELEUSIS. 597 
spot ; which may be of consequence to future CHAP. 
travellers, who visit Megara for the purpose of ^ <~> 
making excavations. 
Thursday, November the seventeenth, we began journey 
our journey from Megara towards Eleusis and 
Athens, filled with curiosity to examine the 
vestigesofthe.fi/ew5m/aM Temple, and over a tract 
of land where every footstep excites the most 
affecting recollections. By every antient well 
and upon every tomb at which the traveller is 
induced to halt, and to view the noble objects by 
which he is surrounded, a crowd of interesting 
events rush into his mind ; and so completely 
fill it, that even fatigue and fever, from which 
he is seldom free, are for a moment forgotten. 
As we left Megara, we had a magnificent view 
of the Saronic Gulph, and of the Island Salamis, 
the scene of the great naval engagement, where 
three hundred and eighty sail of the Grecian 
fleet defeated the vast armament of Xerxes, 
amounting to two thousand ships. The distance 
between Megara and Eleusis, according to the 
Antonine Itinerary, is thirteen miles. After tra- 
velling half an hour, we observed, in the plain 
upon our right, the remains of a building which 
seemed to have been an antient Temple; and one 
