ELEUSIS TO ATHENS. 607 
that we have just noticed. We also observed CHAP. 
the Ruins of another Temple, close to the sea, 
upon our right; of which one column yet 
remained; and some of the stones were still 
standing. This district, lying towards the bor- 
ders of Attica, in a very remote age constituted 
the regal territory of Crocon 8 . But there is a 
circumstance, connected with the most antient 
geography of these regions, which does not 
appear to have been duly regarded. It was 
first pointed out by a learned ancestor of the 
author of these Travels : and as it is of im- 
portance in the establishment of an historical 
fact, nan ely, the common origin of the Goths 
and the Greeks, it may be here briefly stated, as 
deduced from his observations and founded 
upon the authorities he has cited 3 : it is this, 
that the whole of the Eleusinian Plain, together 
with a part of Attica*, were once included 
within the limits of THRACE, whose southern 
frontier extended, as Thucydides informs us 5 , even 
to the Gnlph of Corinth. In the dispute between 
(2) Vid. Pmisnn. ibid. p. 91. 
(3) See the " Connexion of t/ie Roman, Saxon, and English Coim," 
&c. by /nilifim Clarke, M.A. Land. 176; . pp.65, 66, 67. 
(4) Tn /*i *ATT<*>I at ftsrat TLvftoXirtu Qjajts; if%M, Strabon. GtOjJ. 
lib. vii. 
(5) T/Mcyd. 1. ii. c. 29. p. 100. 
