DELPHI. 231 
likely to affect a literary traveller more than the chap. 
view of this fountain Castaltus: its being so . ' , 
easily and surely identified with the inspiring- 
source of Grecian poetry, and at the same time 
combining great picturesque beauty with all 
the circumstances of local interest, added to 
the illustration afforded by its present ap- 
pearance of the manner in which it was origi- 
nally decorated and revered, render it one of 
the most impressive sights that it is possible to 
behold. Pamanias, entering the city from 
B(E0TiA, found it upon his right hand'^ exactly 
as it occurred to us upon our arrival, after 
followina^ the same road the evenino- before. It 
was therefore now upon our left, and upon the 
eastern side of the town. The Gijmnasinm men- 
tioned by the same author stood a little farther 
on, in this direction : the site of it is now 
occupied by a monastery, called that of Panaja, 
being sacred to the Virgin. As we drew nigh 
to the Castalian fountain, we found, lying among 
the loose stones in the road, one of the original 
marble vows formerly placed by the side of the 
Via Sacra, leading from the fountain to the 
Temple, now trampled under foot by every 
(2) "Es'nv iv Js|ia rjjj a'Ssy to uSvp rn; Koc7ra.Xix;> Pausanice Phocica, 
e. 8. p. 817. edi. Kahnii. 
