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remains of trophies and marble monuments are chap. 
yet visible. Beyond all extends the sea, 
shewing the station of the Persian fleet, and the 
distant headlands of Euhoea and of u4uica. 
From the Fillage of Marathon we descended 
into the plain, by the bed of the Charadrus 
river; and crossing it, came first to the village of 
Beij, and afterwards to another village called bct/. 
Sepheri. These names are written as they were SepheH. 
pronounced. We endeavoured to ascertain the 
etymology of the last; and the inhabitants told 
us that the word Sepheri signifies The war. 
Very little reliance, however, is to be placed upon 
information so obtained. Near to this place is 
one of the antient wells of the country. The 
villages of Bey and Sepheri may possibly occupy 
the sites of Probalinthus and (Enoa, cities of the 
Tetuapolis^ of Attica: they are situate at the 
foot of the mountain called Croton ; along the 
base of which, between this mountain and the 
Charadrus river, extends the road to Athens, in 
a north-westerly direction \ Passing round the 
(2) Within this district were the four cities of (Enoa, Marathon^ 
Probalinthus, and Tricorythus. Vid, Strabon. Ceog, lib. viii. p. 555. 
Edit. Oxon. 
(3) See the author's Topographical Chart of the Plain. 
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