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very bad road, and a narrow pass, as we chap. 
VIII. 
ascended higlier up the mountain, our situation - 
being very elevated, we again observed the 
bearings of the principal objects ; and noted 
them in the following order : 
Bearings from the Summit o/" Mount CEta. 
Mount Parnes, in Attica, now Noziu, s. e. 
Mount Hymettus s.E.andbyE. 
The Course of the Cephissus, from w. n. w. to e. s. e. 
Highest point of Parnassus . . . s. and by w. 
The whole range of Parnassus, extending from n.w. to s. e. 
Dadi, upon the base of Parnassus . s. s. w. 
Mount Helicon s. s. e. 
Mount CithjEron s. e. and by s. 
TiTHOREA, upon Parnassus . . . s. and by e. 
The Course of the Cachales, in its progress to join 
the Cephissus, flowing from Tilhorea . . from s. and by E. 
to N. and by w. 
Bodonitza, looking down on the other side of the mountain, 
N. e. and by n. 
A very high Mountain, perhaps the top of Mount Athos, 
visible across the Gulph of Malia . n. n. e. 
We were now upon the summit of all this part 
of (Eta : and as the descent begins here to the 
Straits ofThermopyl(e, this is perhaps that emi- 
nence of the mountain which bore the appellation 
of Callidromos, possibly from the astonishing CaiHdromos. 
beauty and grandeur of the prospect, visible 
along this part of the Via Militaris. Some have 
