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TANArPAICJN upon one, anclTANArPAinN chap. 
upon the other. We asked the peasants where « — , — ^ 
these medals were found in such abundance; 
and they referred us, for the spot, to some 
Ruins that did not appear to'us to be of much 
importance, which we had passed a short time 
before our arrival at Skemata\ They seemed to 
(l) The name of this place is written Scimitari by }A.r. Holhoiise 
(See Trnv. 459. Lond. 1813.) ; and Shimatari by Mr. Hawkins. The 
last of these travellers has recently communicated to the author the 
result of his own observations upon the spot, with regard to the site 
oiTnnagra; and it is highly probable that the coins found by the 
peasants in such abundance were discovered among the ruins of that 
city. Those ruins are at a place called Grimuthi, near Skemata, or 
Skimalari. Mr. Hobhouse also mentions, that a copper coin of Tanagra 
was "brought to him, by the peasants, from the same place; which he 
writes Grematha. 
Extract of a Lettei- from Mr. Hawkins to the Author, concerning the 
Asopus, and the Situation 2/"Tanagra. 
" I am not much surprised at your omitting to notice the Asopus in 
your Journal, which, at this distance from its source, is in Winter a 
muddy torrent, and for eight mouths of the year wholly dry. Jour- 
neying from Parnes towards Thebes, soon after leaving the banks of 
this river, the plain ceases, and you reach a gently undulating territory, 
in which is situate the Albanian village of Skimatari, inhabited by 
forty families. Here you were so near to the ruins of Tanagra, that 
I am surprised that you missed them. They are at a spot called 
Grimalhi, about three miles to the S.W. at the end of a ridge of hills 
which extend from thence several miles towards Thebes. The ground, 
too, has a gradual descent from these ruins towardsthe Asopiis and the 
great plain beyond it, which it proudly overlooks, and which, I have 
no doubt, it formerly commanded. There are no well-preserved 
remains of public edifices, or of walls, at Gi-imhthi: the ruins are in 
such a state as hardly to deserve notice, did they not serve to point out 
the situation of Tanagra. I am, I believe, the first traveller who has 
visited 
