2^58 iSUMMIT OF PARNASSUS. 
CHAP, the first precipices. After an hour's ascent, we 
^ had a fine view of one of the principal mountains 
of the Moren, now called Trkala; the Bay of 
Crissa looking like a lake, bounded by the oppo- 
site mountains of Peloponnesus. Upon a former 
occasion, from the Theatre at Sicyon, we had 
seen the heights we were now climbing, and 
here we were enabled to survey all that region 
of Achaia, and the more distant summits. After 
having surmounted the first precipices, we found 
a large crater, with a village in it, called Kal- 
KaiUdia. Hdia, ov CalUtkea, the summer residence of the 
Arracovions ; who cultivate the plain at the 
bottom of this crater, and, during the hottest 
part of the year, come hither to collect its har- 
vest. Thence turning from the former line of 
our ascent, we proceeded in an opposite direc- 
tion; and after two hours' progress, looked 
down, from a great height, upon Arracovia. 
At twelve, having estimated the thermometer, 
we found that the mercury had fallen to 44" of 
Fahrenheit. Presently we came to another 
plain, with a well in it, full of clear water. Here 
we halted, and regaled ourselves with bread 
and wine. It now began to be cold; the road 
being, as before, steep, but admitting the horses 
Disappear- to follow US tho wholc way. At this place, also, 
ance of the . , 
Vegetation, vcgetatiou bcgau to disappear. Jbxpressmg a 
