160 LEBADEA. 
CHAP, aperture' {<rrou.cc ro Upov), but also the ^source of 
IV 
. _' > the Hercyna, and perhaps the Grove of Tropho- 
niits, with all its temples, statues, and other votive 
General offerings. The stoMu is dcscribed, as it now 
aspect of -'^ ° 
theHieron. appears, to have been a small opening like unto 
an oven^; and it was near to the terrace or floor; 
for the votary, lying down, was thrust into it 
with his feet foremost ; the rest of his body 
being rapidly hauled in afterwards by some 
person or persons within the Adytum. These 
leading facts being stated, an accurate descrip- 
tion of the place, according to its present 
appearance, will be rendered more perspicuous: 
and it is proper that it should be so ; because 
it may not only illustrate a very curious part of 
the religion of Greece, but all that Plutarch, and 
Pausanias, have written upon a subject, for 
whose investigation Archbishop Potter dedicated 
an entire chapter of his work". 
The main body of water which constitutes 
the principal source of the Hercyna is very 
different from that oi the fountain\ T\ie first 
n) Tot/ Sj ii'ixo%ofJt.r.fii.aro; tovtcv to a'^iia, t'lxa^rat x^ijidfiu, Paus. Boeot. 
c. 39. p. 791. ed.Kuhnii. 
(2) Archaeologia Gra-ca, vol. I. chap. 10. p. 289. Lond. 1751. 
(3) See the Plate facing p. 126 of the Fourth Quarto Volume of these 
Travels. 
