PLAIN OF MARATHON. 29 
Some peasants were ploughing upon the Plain, chap. 
a little to the north of these Tombs, among >, ■^', _. 
cotton grounds and corn land : and Mr. Cripps, 
beins: desirous of examinino: the soil, as well as Nature of 
p . ^ . the SoiL 
or mquirmg after any antiquities the husbandmen 
might thus discover, put his own hands to the 
plough, and made several turns with it himself. 
He found only a rich and light soil, of sufficient 
4epth to answer all the best purposes of agri- 
culture, whenever the inhabitants shall be deli- 
vered from the burden of Turkish tyranny, and 
enabled to bestow upon the land the care and 
labour requisite in its proper cultivation. 
Afterwards, proceeding towards the south, 
and passing again the Tomb which, following 
Pausanias, we have called that of the Athenians, 
we came to a rivulet discharging itself into the 
sea, from a Marsh, or swamp, at the foot of a 
mountain called JgherUchi. The distance of 
I. The O'flcjts before noticed ; Crocm autumnalls. 
II. The Mandrnhe, or Alropa Mandragora, grows on the Plain. 
IJI. The Hirsute Horehound, or Marruhlum Idrsutum of JViU- 
denoiv. Tins we found upon the 7\imh of the Athenians. 
IV) V. The French Tamarisk, or Tamarix GaUica of Linnants, and 
the Juneus AcutuSy Linn, grew by Marathon Lake. 
VI, VII. At the village of Maratlion we found the Montpelier Rock-rose 
or Cistus Monspeliensis of Linn, and the Common Night- 
shade, or Sulanum nigrum of Linnaus. 
