THEBES. 70 
-'—Monastery of St. Nicholo — Antiquities discovered 
there — Sitiialion of the Fountain Aganippe and Grove 
©f the Muses ascertained — River Permessus — Inscription 
relating to the Games called M0Y2EIA — Extraordi- 
nary leauty of the scenery — Situation of the Fountain 
Hippocrene. 
X HEBES contains about three hundred houses S chap. 
and it is governed by a JVaiivode. Including . ^^ 
the inhabitants of its suburbs, it has a numerous Population 
' ^ of Tlubes. 
population ; but no accurate calculation of this 
can be made, because no reliance can be placed 
upon the contradictory statements which are 
given to travellers. Du Loir, in the middle of 
the seventeenth century, affirmed that he found 
Thebes as well peopled as Athens, and better 
provided with the necessaries of life. Sport 
computed its population at three or four thou- 
sand souls ^ but he was not one entire day in 
the town, and his information could only have 
been obtained from the Greek with whom he 
lodged'. Thebes has one advantage over 
(1) Five hundred, according to Mr. Ilobhotue (Trav.p. 278. Lond. 
1814.); two mosques; and four churches. 
(2) "Trois ou quatre mille ames, en comprenant les faux-bourgs." 
Voyage en G lice, torn. U. p. bo. a la Have, \~'24. Mr. Ilai/garth 
also makes the number of inhabitants " about 4000." See Notes, if^c. 
to Part. I. of Hay garth's Greece, a Poem, p. ICG. Lo7id. 1814. 
(3) Wheler says, they left Livadia, " January the twenty-fifth, 
about eleven in the morning," and Thebes by day-break Jan. 26; but 
this 
