AND PLAT.EA. 95 
cylinders placed over the mouths of tvells in chap. 
Greece ; as at Athens, and Argos : for the well ' i,. > 
represented by this bas-relief resembled, as 
they do, externally, an antient altar; and it 
might be mistaken for an altar, were it not for 
the remarkable position of the horse, which 
plainly refers to the real subject intended to be 
represented. On the outside of the town, upon 
this southern side of Thebes, there is a fountain ; 
perhaps the same described by Spon^ as that 
which the Antients called Z)/rce, and which flowed 
into the Ismenus. The view of the Cadmcean view of the 
Citadelis here very grand; and it is by much the cuZd"!"' 
finest view of Thebes, It appears to stand amidst 
several broken eminences, towering above all of 
them, and commanding the great plain which 
extends towards the right emd left, reaching 
from east to west*. Beyond the plain, towards 
the north, appear the wavy summits of the 
mountain boundary. We continued through 
pasture land to Platana. distant two hours from Pi'^iuna 
. . . , „ Village. 
Thebes ; a small village, consistmg only of 
seven cottages, but perhaps retaining, in its 
name, a derivative from the antient appellation 
(3) Voyage deGrece, torn. H. p. 55. a la Huye, 1724. 
(•t) Seethe Vignette to this Chapter. The whole of the level country 
intervenia^ between Mons Mesapius, or Mesapion, and CUhcsron, is 
called, by .^schylus, XliiUt 'Aimxou, Vid. yJsfam. v. 305. 
