DELPHI. 225 
Strabo: and this circumstance induced Larcher chap. 
VI. 
to believe that the city was rebuilt within a 
short time after Strabo^ writings appeared^. 
Just before our arrival at Delphi, we had a 
view of the sea ; appearing like a small lake 
through an opening of the sides of the moun- 
tain, being a part of the Bay of Crissa. It was 
beginning to grow dark as we drew nigh to 
Castri, the name of a wretched village, now Castri. 
occupying the site of the sacred city ; and the 
road was almost impassable. At length we 
saw this truly wonderful place, covering a 
lofty eminence upon the south side of the moun- 
tain, that is to say, upon our right, immediately 
beneath some high perpendicular precipices, 
whence a chasm of the rifted rock admits the 
waters of the Castalian fountain to fail 
from Parnassus towards the sea. Such is the 
general aspect of the place. The village con- Present 
sists of about seventy houses, whose inhabi- ^f zl!/X- 
tants are Greeks: and wherever Greek peasants 
are found in the villages, instead of Albanians, 
want and wretchedness are generally apparent. 
We were conducted to pass the night in the 
poor cottage of the poorest peasant of this 
(2) Mcntelle Gko«. lS.r\Q. torn. I. p. 54S. Par/s, 1787. 
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