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such is the extraordinary situation of the town, 
that it presented a very remarkable appearance, 
amidst the surrounding gloom of rocks, which 
here rise in perpendicular elevations, at the 
extremity of an extensive plain. It occupies 
the two sides of a ravine, growing narrower as 
you advance towards a lofty naked precipice; 
upon whose summit appears an antient fortress, 
towerino- over all the scene. At the foot of this 
precipice, below the fortress, was the Hieron of 
the famous oracle Trophonius; and the rushing 
waters of the Hercyna, flowing thence through 
the ravine, called to mind the extraordinary 
history of the cavern of that oracle, whose pre- 
sent appearance and situation we were now 
particularly anxious to view. 
We were conducted to the house of a rich House of 
the 
Greek merchant, of the name of Logotheti, the Archon. 
Archon or chief of Lebadea, a subject of the 
Grand Sisfnior, since well known to o\he,x English 
travellers for his hospitality and kind offices. 
His brother had been beheaded for his wealth, 
two years before, in Constantinople,, In the 
house of this gentleman we had an opportunity 
of observing the genuine manners of the higher Mannersof 
class of Modern Greeks, unaltered by the intro- cialisS'" 
duction of any foreign customs, or by a frequent ^^^^^ 
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