18 PLAIN OF MARATHON. 
CHAP, the village to the sea. Upon the right are seen ' 
» ' ' the villages of Marathon and Bey, a mountain 
called Croton, a part of Pentelicus, and the more 
distant summits of jiitica towards Sunium. 
Upon the left is a mountain called Stauro Koraki^ 
or Raven Cross. In front lies the plain, inter- 
sected throughout its length by the Charadrus, 
as before mentioned. The opening between the 
mountains into this plain is twelve stadia, or a 
mile and a half English, in width. Beyond the 
village of Bey, at the extremity of the plain 
towards the sea, is seen the conspicuous Tomb 
raised over the bodies of the Athenians who fell 
in the memorable battle against the Persians. 
^ Even the section recently made near its summit, 
with a view to open it, is visible from this place, 
like a dark line traced from the top towards the 
base. Farther on appears the Marathonian shore, 
where the Persian army landed ; and close to the 
coast, upon the right, a macsh, wherein the 
Lusieri is not likely to invite the notice of amateurs, either to the 
merits or even to the existence of his own performances. This is 
one cause why so little has been known of his best works : and 
another may originate in the opposition made to his fame, by that 
rivalship from which the path of merit is rarely exempt, but which 
has never been more conspicuous than among candidates for distinc- 
tion in the graphic art, from the days of Protogenes, down to the 
time of Don Battista. 
(l) See the Plate facing p. 14, Vol. IV, of the Quarto Edition of 
these Travels. //OwJ. 181b'. 
