AND PLATiEA. 07 
minute attention to the relative position of chap. 
yj ^ . III. 
objects near the village of Platana will here be . ^^-' _/ 
requisite, that it may enable us to correct the 
very erroneous description of this district 
published by the Abbe Barthelemy, to illustrate 
his account of the battle of Platofa, from the 
observations of Barbie du Boccage\ The Asopus 
is there deduced from the heights of Citii.i:ron, 
whence it flows from the south towards the 
north, through an imaginary valley, separating 
into two channels which do not exist; and 
Plat-ea is placed upon the mountain to the 
south of these separate streams. We had this 
map upon the spot ; and finding it to be so 
false and confused, that it was wholly irrecon- 
cileable with the scene itself, the author, with 
the very imperfect means he possessed, made 
a more accurate survey ; but this document has 
since been lost. However, from the notes 
written at the time, he is able in some measure 
to supply its place; and for this purpose, it 
may be proper to recapitulate a little of that 
which has been said before. Platana is about 
six miles to the south of Thebes. To the 
south-west of Platana upon Cith.^ron, now 
(3) Recueil de Cartes G^ographiques, &c. rclatifs au Voyage du 
Jeune Anacharsis. Troisi^me Edition, No. IV, Psm, 1790. 
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