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observed, that the use of A0AON with the geni- 
tive of a city is very unusual; and another 
learned Hellenist, R. P. Knight, Esq. believes ; 
that it never was thus used, nor with any other 
* Aycovodiri]!; . Mr. Knight adheres to the opinion 
that A0ENEON means the festival ; but he does 
not carry back the antiquity of the vase much 
beyond the sixtieth Olympiad, five hundred and 
thirty- six years before the Christian sera : 
; allowing, however, for the age of this remark- 
able vase, a period equal to two thousand three 
hundred and fifty-one years. 
It remains now to add a few words re- 
specting the other subjects treated of in this 
and the preceding Sections of Part the Se- 
cond. A casual reader, who has not con- 
sidered the importance of attending to every 
object likely to serve as a land-mark in fixing the 
topography and geography of Greece, may per- 
haps think that too much attention has some- 
times been bestowed upon the existence of a 
fountain; or of a bridge over an insignificant 
stream ; or of a tumulus; or of the capital or 
shaft of a Doric or of an Ionic column ; or any 
other apparently trivial relic connected with 
the antient history of the country; — not being 
