272 PARNASSUS. 
CHAP, in capital letters. He saw also a fair copy of 
VII . e, 
' the Works of St. Chrysostom, a manuscript of 
the twelfth century; and others written upon 
vellum. 
Journey to Thc ucxt day, Decemhcr the seventeenth, proved 
ramy. We left the Monastery of the P irgin, and 
set out in a n.w. direction for iTeUtza; keeping 
to the left, along' the side of the mountain, and 
descending* during the space of half an hour. 
We had heard at Lehadea of great ruins at 
Felitza ; and it had been our intention, on the 
preceding day, if our time should permit, to 
descend thither from the summit of Parnassus; 
instead of proceeding by the way of the monastery 
where we passed the night. In this manner 
we should have followed the footsteps of Pau- 
sanias : and it was his description of the journey 
over Parnassus, from Delphi, which excited a 
suspicion in our minds that the ruins at Felitza 
were of no other city than Tithorea, whose 
situation had not been ascertained at the time 
of our journey ; and in this conjecture we 
were right. The archon oi Lehadea called them 
the ruins of Thebes ; owing to a confused tradi- 
tion of the destruction of a city of Piiocis of 
this name still extant among the natives. There 
is a PalcEo-castro at about an hour's distance 
