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20 PLAIN OF MARATHON. 
CHAP, foot of this mountain to the right, that is to say, 
towards the ivest, in a part of the plain which lies 
between Croton and another mountain called 
j^gherlichi, lying towards the south-west, we 
came to the village of Branna, pronounced 
Vranna, and generally believed to be a corrup- 
tion of the antient Brauron. To this village it 
was that Whaler descended, by a different route, 
as before mentioned, from that which we pur- 
sued; " over a ridge," he says\ "where the 
mountains of Nozea and Pendeli meet." Owing 
to this circumstance, he does not appear to have 
travelled along the old road from Athens to 
Marathon, over which the Athenian forces must 
have passed, in their way to the plain; because 
we have already noticed the remains of an 
antient paved-way in the journey we took, 
and he mentions no appearance of this kind. 
Vranna, which he, more lyrically, calls Urania, 
is situate, as he describes it to be, " between 
Mountains two mouutaiuous buttresscs:" but they do not 
ttS^A'^Ter- belong to the same mountain, there being a 
Uchi. separation between them; and they bear the 
two distinct names of Croton and Agherlichi'. 
(1) Journey into Greece, p. 453. Land. 1682. 
(2) They are distinctly alluded to by Chandler, who followed 
IVheler's route, and considers the mountain now called /Agherlichi 
to be a ])ait of Penlclicus. '' We soon entered," says be, " betv/een 
two 
