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STRAITS OF THERMOPYL/E. 
CHAP, 
VIII. 
Situation 
of the 
Spartan 
advanced 
guard. 
reference to the Tomb of the Thehans near Ch^, 
ronea': and the only difference between the 
two is, that the CJueronean tumulus is larger than 
this : they are both alike in shape. We have 
not thought it right, in relating our discovery of 
this tomb, to introduce any remarks that were 
made afterwards ; but the reader, wishing to 
have its history yet further ascertained, will 
find additional testimony concerning it in the 
account which follows. The description of its 
exact situation, with regard to the scene of 
those events which have consecrated to perpe- 
tual memory the narrow passage of Thermopylae, 
will serve to strengthen the opinion here main- 
tained with regard to the tomb itself; for it is 
placed upon the top of the very eminence, 
within the dejile, to which all the Greeks retired, 
excepting only the Thebans : *' and there," 
says Herodotus', " is the tumulus, at the 
ENTRANCE OF THE DEFILE, WHERE NOW 
STANDS THE STONE LION TO LeONIDAS." They 
retired to this spot, answering also to the situa- 
tion of their camp; for this was within the 2vaU 
that closed the passage ; there being a little 
. (1) njo9-<ovT»v « T^ jroXs/, nOATANAnON' 0HBAinN ia-riv, k. r. X. 
Pausan. Boeol. c. 40. p. 795. ed. ICnhnii. 
(2) 'O 61 xtXatvo} ot/TOf 'iffri Iv t*) iire^/u, okou vvv i \l^ivsf Xiay iffTTtxi Iti 
AsiaviSi}. Herodjli Hist. lib. vii. cap. '2'2t<. p. 455. ed. Gronovii. 
