CHAP. II. 
MARATHON TO THEBES. 
Present Village of Marathon — Cave of Pan — Charadia — 
Plants — Dogs — Albanians o/" the Mountains — Summits 
ofParnes — View from the Heights — Kalingi — Capan- 
dritti — Magi — Plain of Tamagra — Pillage of Shalishi 
— Ela — EuRiPUs — Skemata — Medals — Villages of 
Bratchi, Macro, and Megalo Vathni — Plain of Thebes 
— surrounding Scenery — ^Thebes — State of Surgery and 
Medicine in Greece — Antiquities of Thebes — Inscrip- 
tions — State of Painting among the Greeks iji the age of 
Alexander — Seven Gates of Thebes — Story of Amphion 
and his Lyre not a fable — Pretended Tomb of St. Luke 
— Desc7'iption of that Monument — Antient Bulwark — 
Church of St. Demetrius — Rare variety of the Corin- 
thian Order in Architecture. 
Jcjxcepting one or two houses belonging to chap. 
Turkish families which are not constantly resi- » — , — -' 
dent, the present village of Marathon consists viiiag"e of 
only of a few wretched cottages, inhabited by 
