22'2 PARNASSUJs. 
CHAP. The rocks are tremendous in magnitude and 
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^ height : they consist of limestone, charac- 
terized, as to its colour, by those grey and 
silvery hues before mentioned, and containing 
veins and beds of marble. In this part of 
Parnassus there are but few trees, and these 
only upon the heights ; which are covered with 
pines. Precipices everywhere surround the 
traveller, excepting where the view extends 
through valleys and broken cliffs towards 
Delphi; giving to all these scenes that deep 
and powerful solemnity, which formerly im- 
pressed with awe the minds of votaries jour- 
neying from the most distant parts of Greece, 
towards the sanctuary of the Pythian God. 
We saw the mouth of a natural cavern, in an 
inaccessible situation above the road. At the 
distance of four hours from Delphi, we crossed 
a river, falling from Parnassus towards the Bay 
of Crissa. After another hour had elapsed, we 
left a village called Arracovia, pronounced 
Rhacovi, upon our right ; the scenery exhibiting 
everywhere the same degree of grandeur. 
Afterwards, we arrived at a village still pre-" 
sifuation scrviug thc auticnt name of Crissa, now 
pronounced Crissu. Never was there any thing 
more romantic than its appearance, in a grove 
of Crisstu 
