162 LEBADEA. 
CHAP, the nature of the current, said', '* I do not call 
IV. 
■ it the Fountain; but think that some other 
rivers from the Helicon do make it rise here, by 
a subterraneous passage under the mountain :" 
and in a preceding paragraph he describes it as 
coming " with such a plentiful source out of 
the mountain, that it turneth twenty mills in the 
town, not a bow-shot off its rise." But this 
writer, in the map prefixed to his work^ has 
marked the disappearance of two rivers into the 
earth, south of Lebadea, — the one during its 
descent from Helicon, and the other from Anti- 
cyra; and has traced what he conceived to be 
their subterraneous courses, by dotted lines, 
towards this source of the Hercyna. The same 
therefore might antiently have been said of the 
river that was believed to happen to those who 
drank of its water, — that it assumed a new 
state of existence, forgetful of the past': and 
having once received a name derived from any 
thing marvellous or remarkable in its history, it 
is easy to account for the appellation bestowed 
upon the neighbouring fountain, and all the 
(1) Journey into Greece, p. 321. Land. 1682. 
(2) See the edition printed at London in 1682. 
(3) 'EtTuu^a in p^^ri vii7* alrit Knins rt Siv^ xaXov/ttiidt, "»« Xn^n yitnTXi tl 
wiirui a rial} i^gour/^^!. Paui. JBoeet. c. 39. p. 790. ed. Kuhn. 
