LEBADEA. 159 
IN OTHERS, AND WHAT I HAVE PROVED TU"CE CHAP. 
IV. 
BY MY OWN EXPERIENCE." Laying asidc the ~- ' 
reserve he sometimes assumes, with regard to 
the sacred mysteries of the country, he gives a 
succinct and very interesting detail of all he 
witnessed upon the occasion ; and his readers, 
viewing the scene itself, are made almost as 
well acquainted with every thing that was 
necessary to carry on the solemn farce, as if 
they had been present with him ; the juggle of 
a stupid superstition, as far as it related to the 
oracle, being easily understood, without any 
preternatural communication from Trophonius. 
The Uvo sources are called, by Pausanias, the 
waters of Lethe and Mnemosyne; or, in other Water of 
Oblivion. 
words, the Water of Oblivion, and the Water of water of 
Memory^. But a remarkable observation pre- "^^'^"""■^' 
viously occurs, respecting the place where they 
rise: he says% they are both of them {iv tu 
CryiXoiioj) " WITHIN THE CAVERN." HcUCe WC 
may learn that the Adytum and the Cavern were 
two distinct things : ihQ first was a small aper- 
ture within the other : and the appellation 
IIIHAAION was applied to the whole of the 
chasm, or range of precipitous rock, around the 
place, which contained not only the '' sacred 
(."5) Vid. Fausan. ibid. 
(4) Ibid. p. 789. 
