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stalactites had assumed in the second century, cii.u' 
being, by him, referred to animal and other 
forms ; as Joseph Piltcm de Tournefort, in the 
first year of the eighteenth century, with equal 
gravity, refers the ramifications of alabaster, hi 
the Grotto of ^jitiparos, to cauUfoiucrs and treesy 
as proofs of the vegetation of stones'. 
We left Maratlion on the morning of the tJuid 
of December, being accompanied by our friend 
Lusieri as far as the mill, where the road to 
Athens separates from that which leads to 
Kalingi and to Thebes; and here we saw him for 
the last time. At this mill there are the 
remains of an aqueduct, with arches, covered 
with ivy. From hence we began to ascend a 
part of the mountain Fames, now called Nozia, 
with a strong accent upon the last syllable. In 
the same manner, the modern name of the 
island Ceos is not pronounced, as written, Zia, 
but Zia. Our ascent was alono: the course of 
(.3) " II ii'est pa:; possible encore im coup que cela sc ^oit fait par 
la chCitc lies ^outtes d'eau, coinme Ic pn'tendent reiix qui expliqiieiit 
la formation des congelations dans les grottes. il y a Vieaucoiq) plus 
d'appareiice que les autres cons^i'lations dont iinn-; ])arlons, et qui 
pendent du haut en ha-i, on qui pou«sent en flirTi'-rent sens, ont ('Xi 
produites par le ni^mc prinoipe, c'ksT-a-diui'. pai; i.\ vf.of.tation." 
f'c'jct^e dtt Levuiit, torn. I. p.'llQ. 7i fjn<ii, \',\~,. 
