VIII. 
288 FROM TITHOREA, 
CHAP. cliasm, there is a way up to the summit 
of the mountain ; being in all probability 
the road from Delphi, as mentioned by 
Pausanias. The highest peak of Par- 
nassus towers into the clouds above 
the chasm close to which Tithorea is 
placed ; and exactly in a line with it ; so 
as to appear immediately over it. 
Turco-Chorio, formerly Elate a, due east, 
upon the other side of the Cephissus, in 
full view. 
The river Cephissus — flowing from north- 
ivest to south-east. 
The Cachales — falling into the Cephissus, 
from south-south-east towards north-north- 
zvest. 
Highest peak of Parnassus — south-west 
and by south. 
MouxT (Eta — north-north-east. 
Koad over Mount Q^ta, to the Straits of 
Thermopylae, north-tuest and by west. 
The wall of the Palceo-Castro extends from 
iDest-north-iuest to east-south-east; that is to 
say, from the left to the right of a person 
who is standing with his back towards 
Tithorea and Parnassus. 
From the Palcro-Casiro we turned towards^ 
