598 ' APPROACH TO ELEUSIS, 
mile farther, we saw a similar ruin upon an 
eminence by the same side of our road. The 
plain here is beautiful and fertile. When 
Wheler passed, it was covered with anemonies\ 
Another ruin appeared also upon a hill a quarter 
of a mile nearer to Eleusis ; and a little beyond 
this, upon the left, close to the road, we saw 
two Tombs opposite to each other. Afterwards, 
we came to a Well, at which our guides stopped 
to water their mules. Soon after passing this 
well, we saw another Tomb, and many heaps of 
stones, as of ruined structures, upon our left. 
The Reader, comparing these remains with the 
account given by Pausanias, may affix names to 
them according to his own ideas of their coinci- 
dence with his description. An author would 
not be pardoned who launches into mere con- 
jecture with regard to anyone of them. We then 
began to ascend a part of the mountain Kerata, 
so named from its double summit, and now 
called Gerata. We saw upon the shore below 
us a few houses, and an appearance as of an 
antient Mole, projecting into the sea; yet no 
author has mentioned the existence of any 
(l) Journey into Greece, p. 430. Lond.lGAZ. 
