IV. 
166 LEBADEA. 
CHAP, considered as corresponding with the description 
given by Pausanias of the throne of Mnemosynci 
(for he says' it was not far from the j4dytum,) it 
will follow, of course, that the fountain, springing 
into the bath below, was also that which afforded 
the Water of Memory. At present, this fountain 
supplies the town of Lebadea with its best 
water; adding greatly to the picturesque beauty 
of this remarkable scene; which is further 
heightened by deep shadows in all the cavities 
of the rock, by a number of pensile plants adorn- 
ing the face of the precipice, and by an old stone 
bridge of one arch, crossing the Hercyna a little 
below. Paumnias mentions another curious cir- 
cumstance, which seems to prove that the small 
opening above the bath can be no other than 
the mouth of the yldytum : it is this ; that the 
place where the Oracle resided was surrounded 
by a wall of white stone, not exceeding the height 
of two cubits % inclosing a very small area. 
The diameter of such 3.peribolus must have been 
very limited; because it could only extend from 
the face of the precipice to the brink of the 
river ; this being at the distance of nine feet 
(1) KuTcu Ti ov x'offu Tou aiuTou. Pausan. Bceot. c. 59. p. 73-» edit. 
Kuhn. 
{SI) Ibid. p. 791. 
