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of olive-trees, distant only one hour from chap. 
Delphi : it is surrounded by lofty eminences ; 
and? so abundantly provided with living water, 
that streams appear falling in all directions, for 
the supply of its various mills and fountains. 
The name of this place, added to the testi- 
monies afforded by various fragments of marble 
and other remains of antiquity upon the spot, 
enable us to fix the disputed position of Cri.sm ; 
concerning whose situation there are errors, 
even in the writings of antient authors'. An an- 
tient scholiast upon Pindar pretends, that under 
this name of Crissa was designated the city of 
Delphi ; the two places, owing to their vicinity, 
being confounded together. Other writers, as 
Pamanias, and the author of the Etymologicon 
Magnum, have supposed that Crissa was the 
same place as Cirrha ; but the erroneous nature 
of this opinion seems plain, from the observations 
of Ptolemy and of Pliny. After reviewing all 
that has been written for the illustration of this 
subject, whether by the Antients, or by several 
modern geographers — as Casauhoji, Freret, Gc- 
doyuy and others S it was concluded by Mentelle\ 
(1) There is an appearance, as of a ruined town, in a small plain witlnn 
the defile, soon after passing Arracovia, 
(2) Memoires de LittSrat. torn. Ill, et V. 
(5) Geographie Ancieniie, torn. I. p. 547. Paris, 11 S7,, 
