600 ELEUSIS. 
CHAP. f rom the fruitless search of her daughter Pro- 
A. 
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Arriving upon the site of the city of &LEUSIS, 
we found the plain to be covered with its Ruins. 
Aqueduct. The first thing we noticed was an Aqueduct, part 
of which is entire. Six complete arches are yet 
to be seen. It conducted towards the Acropolis, 
Temple of by the Temple of Ceres. The remains of this 
Ceres. J 
Temple are more conspicuous than those of any 
other structure, excepting the Aqueduct. The 
paved road which led to it is also visible, and the 
pavement of the Temple yet remains. But to 
heighten the interest with which we regarded 
the relics of the Eleusinian fane, and to fulfil 
the sanguine expectations we had formed, the 
of'th'e fragment of a Statue, mentioned by many authors 
Goddess, as that of the Goddess herself, appeared in 
colossal majesty among the mouldering vestiges 
of her once splendid sanctuary. We found it, 
exactly as it had been described to us by the 
(l) Wheler has placed this well farther from Eleusis, on the road to 
Megara ; and he mentions a small plain which he believed to have 
been the^2Arra,as distinct from Eleusis, (see " Journ. into Greece." 
p. 430. Loud. 1682.) which we failed to observe. The Plain of Eleusis 
is about eight miles long, and four in breadth. Wheler makes the 
Rkariun Plain, *' a valley only three or four miles in compass." 
