98 
JOURNEY TO CITH.ERON 
GHAP. 
III. 
bearing the name of Elatcea^ is a place called 
Coda, in view, and as it were hanging upon the 
side of the mountain. Due west is Purgos, with 
its ruined tower, at the extremity of the plain of 
Platana. Turning from the south towards the 
east, to the south-east of Platana village, there 
are some ruins : first, of a chapel, upon a hill at 
about gun-shot distance, in which we saw an 
antient bas-relief; and somewhat farther on, in 
this direction, are the ruins of a village, and of 
another chapel, standing upon the site of an 
antient temple, whose dilapidations are obser- 
vable in the large hewn stones lying all around 
the area it occupied. Below this chapel is the 
Source of SOURCE OF THE AsOPUS; UOt UpOn CiTHiERON, 
but in the Platcean plain, below the mountain. 
From its source winding round to the right, 
thereby inclosing the land in which the village 
of Platana lies, and flowing at first from the 
south-east towards the north-west, it afterwards 
turns off towards the north and north-east, sepa- 
rating the antient Theban plain, from that oi^ 
Platcea; and thence, pursuing its course to- 
wards the Gulph of Euripus, it there falls into 
the sea. The appearance of the source is that 
of a little luell in the midst of a small marsh ; and 
close to it are the vestiges of some antient struc- 
ture, perhaps the Uieron of the source itself. 
