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Mount Pindus far before him, and, descending chap. 
XI. 
into the Plain of the Sperchius, passes the Straits . 
of Thermopylae. Afterwards, ascending Mount 
CEta, he beholds, opposite to him, the snowy 
point of Lycorea, with all the rest of Parnassus, 
and the towns and villages at its base ; the 
whole Plain of Elatcsa lying at his feet, with the 
course of the Cepldssus to the sea. Passing to 
the summit of Parnassus, he looks down upon 
all the other mountains, plains, islands, and 
gulphs of Greece; but especially surveys the 
broad bosoms of Cithisron, of Helicon, of Parnes, 
and of Hymettus. Thence roaming into the 
depths and over all the heights of Euhoea and 
of Peloponnesus, he has their inmost recesses 
again submitted to his contemplation. Next, 
resting upon Hymettus, he examines, even in 
the minutest detail, the whole of jittica, to the 
Sunian Promontory; for he sees it all, and all 
the shores of Argos, of Sicyon, of Corinth, of 
Mesrara, of Eleusis, and of Athens. Thus, Vaiedk- 
although not m all the freshness of its livmg trospectof 
colours, yet in all its grandeur, doth Greece 
actually present itself to the mind's eye ; — and 
may the impression never be obliterated! In 
the eve of bidding it farewell for ever, as the hope 
of visiting this delightful country constituted the 
earliest and the warmest wish of his youth, the 
