104 JOURNEY TO PLAT/EA. 
^ m.^* graphy of Greece becomes more known ; for tPte 
** * -' time is fast approaching when the history of 
the battle of Flatcea will be illustrated by an 
accurate survey of the scene of action. The 
position of the sacred well is falsely assigned in 
the plan of the battle by Barbie clu Boccage. 
Instead of being sought for towards Cithceron, 
or in the plain immediately below the mountain, 
as he has placed it, the vestiges, perhaps of the 
Temple of u4pollo, and the ivell itself, may be 
found quite in a contrary direction. That we 
may describe the spot with so much precision 
as to become guides for others who follow us, 
it will be necessary to mark its situation, with 
reference not only to the village of Platana, but 
to the main route from Thebes to the Peloponnesus, 
In the road which leads from Thebes to the 
Morea, about a league and a quarter from 
Thebes, there is a bridge over the Asopus, now 
called '' the Morea bridge ;' and here, according 
Camp of to the tradition of the inhabitants, was the camp 
Mardonius. „ . i • i ii- tx-. 
of Mardomus, or, as they style mm, ''the Gene- 
ralissimo of the grand army of the Medes ;" and 
certainly there is nothing in their tradition 
contradicting what historians teach us to 
believe was the real position of the Persian 
camp. From this bridge (which, as a land- 
mark, no traveller will be at any loss to dis- 
