480 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
manners of the Albanian peasants are nearly those of the first 
ages. Thirty-seven centuries have elapsed since "Abraham," 
as it is written of him, {Genesisyi\\\. 6.) "hastened into the 
TENT unto SARAH, AND SAID, MAKE READY QUICKLY 
THREE MEASURES OF FINE MEAL, KNEAD IT, AND MAKE 
CAKES UPON THE HEARTH." 
F. 132. 1.5. ^^ Higher up the mountain, at the distance of 
twenty stadia, ^c. was the fountain Hippocrene."^ — 
Stralo mentions, besides the " Hieron of the Muses," and the 
" Hippocrene fountain,'' a natural cavern in Helicon, which 
future travellers may discover, called the " Cave of the Nymphs 
Libethrides." 'EvravSiX, W Io-ti to, n tZv M6v<rav h^av, Kct,} o 
'iTT'^ovKpiivyi, xccl TO tSv A^^/2n6^'^cav vvfA<pZv cttrg^ov. Strab. Geog. 
lib. ix. p. 595. ed. Oxon. 
P. 136. 1. 16. " Highest mountain q/'Eubcea, bearing East 
and by North."] — This mountain is now called Delphos. 
P. 254. 1. 4 from bottom : " The wine from these vineyards is 
excellent."}— Hence the original consecration of Parnassus 
to the Sun, and to Bacchus: 
" MoNS Phcebo, Bromioque sacer." 
Lucano Pharsal. lib, v. ver. 73. p, 263. Lips. 1726. 
P. 307. 1. 4. The Tumulus itself is the Polyandrium 
mentioned ly Strabd."^ — &d^xvri? 3e reiis mx^ov?, il^yutravrt 
KDivh UaXvd'.i^^iov. jEUaji. On the subject of the Polyan- 
DRivM, see Gyraldus, " De vario Sepeiiendi Ritu," torn. I. 
p. 748. (Not. 9) L.Bat. 1696. 
P. 436. Note (2). " Funeral customs of the Macedonians..''"^— 
The former, indeed, contains a valuable Dissertation o^ John 
Baptista Crophius upon the " Antiquities of Macedonia;^ 
wherein there is a Chapter entitled " Morbi ac Funera 
ReguM," 
