614 ELEUSIS TO ATHENS. 
CHAP, and splendid objects, can possibly exhibit, 
aided by the most surprising eiFect of colour, 
light, and shade, is here presented to the 
spectator. The wretched representations made 
of the scenes in Greece, even by the best 
designs yet published in books of travels, have 
often been a subject of regret among those who 
have witnessed its extraordinary beauties; and. 
in the list of them, perhaps few may be con- 
sidered as inferior to the numerous delineations 
which have appeared of this extraordinary city. 
But with such a spectacle before his eyes 
as this now alluded to, how deeply d>;es the 
traveller deplore, that the impression is not 
only transitory as far as he is concerned in its 
enjoyment, but that it is utterly incapable of 
being transmitted to the minds of others. With 
such reflections, we reluctantly quitted the spot; 
and passing downwards to the plain, crossed 
the Cepkissus, and entered the olive-groves ex- 
tending towards our left, over the site of the 
site of the Academy. If we may trust the account given 
Academy, 
us by our Tchohadar, there are not less than 
forty thousand of these trees ; the largest and 
finest of the kind we had seen in Greece 1 . The 
(l) The most beautiful wond perhaps ever seen in England \s that of 
Athenian Olive, when polished. A table made of this wood is in the 
possession of the Earl of Egrcmont. It has been cut from some logs of 
the 
