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tare of the whole series; and the Castalian 
Spring, and the Gijmnasium, at the right extre- 
mity of the Coilon. '^he front- work of these 
terraces, being perfectly even and perpendi- 
cular, is everywhere artificial: it exhibits a 
Cyclopean masonry, adapted to the natural accli- 
vity of the rock. This masonry remains in 
many places entire; but as it does not now 
continue throughout the whole extent of the 
semicircle, a hasty observer might conclude, 
that the detached parts were so many separate 
foundations of the different temples of the city. 
There is enough remaining to enab't skilful 
architect to form an accurate plan of Delphi; 
but it should be fitted to a model of Parnassus; 
for in the harmonious adjustment, here conspi- 
cuous, of the works of God and man, every 
stately edifice and every majestic pile raised by 
human labour was made to form a part of the 
awful features of the mountain. From what- 
ever quarter Delphi was approached, a certain 
solemn impression of supernatural agency must 
have been excited ; diffusing its influence over 
every object ; so that the sanctity of the 
whole district became a saying throughout 
Greece, and " all Parnassus was accounted 
HOLY 
I " 
(l) \\iie i<hnicn. Cen^. lili. ix. p. 6"4. cd. '■'*<)«. 
