GENERAL STATEMENT OF CONTENTS. 
CsLve— Eastern Gate of the City— Gymnasium— Inscriptions 
there— Stadmm— Monastery of Elias— Caverns— Plan of 
Delphi— Prolahle Site of the Temple of ApoWo— Other 
Inscriptions — Cause of the wretched slate of Castn — 
Medals. 
CHAP. VII. 
p. 252. 
DELPHI, TO THE SUMMIT OF PARNASSUS, AND 
TITHOREA. 
Arracovia — Vineyards of Farnassns— Prospect — Condition of 
the inhabitants — Alteration of temperature — Traditions — 
Journey to the summit— KaWidia— Disappearance of the 
• vegetation — Crater o/Pamassus — Nature of the Peak — State 
of the thermometer upon the heights — Ohjects visible from the 
top of the mountain — Bearings by the compass — Adventure 
with the horses — Geological features — Singular effect of 
spontaneous decomposition in Limestone — Inference deduced 
from such phcejiomena — Plants of Parnassus — Lugari, or 
Lycorea — Monastery of theVir gin— Caloyers — their devotional 
exercises — Ignorance of those priests — Journeij to Velitza — 
Cachales torrent — Discovery of the Ruins o/'Tithorea — its 
relative position withregard to Delphi — Produce q/" Velitza — 
Simplicity of the Natives — their miserable conditio?! — Anti- 
quity of Tithorea — Other Memorabilia-^Egyptian custom oj 
embalming birds illustrated — Inscription relating to Tithorea 
— its dc.te ascertained — Other Inscriptions. 
