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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt:... ARGEIA. LACONIA. From Argos to the Mills of Anapli.--Lerna.--Mount PonTinus.--Fountain Amymone--Temenium.--To Kiveri. --Genesium.--Abobathmi.--To Astr6 and Luku.-- Anigrjea.--The Deine.--Astrum. -- Thyrea. -- AnThene.--Neris.--To Prastiotika Katyvia.--Prasic.-- Cyphanta.--To Kastanitza.--Tzakonia.--Tzakonic dialect.--Eva.--To Tzitzina.--River Tanus.--Mount ParNon.--To the Monastery of the Forty Saints.--Ancient road from Argos to Sparta.--Scotita.-- Sei, lABIA.-- Caryje.--River Cenus.--To Sparta and Mistra. March 18.--A pezodhr6mo brought me a letter to-day at noon, which had been written at Tripolitza in the morning, a direct distance of more than twenty-four British miles. Another sent by M. V to Mr. Consul Strane, at Patra, was six days absent, and remained an entire day and night at Patra; the road distance from hence to Patra to a pedestrian, is about ninety British miles. This afternoon I quit Argos for Mistra, by the way of Tzakonia. The road to the mills of Anapli, by reason of the neglected state of the plain, and its consequent marshiness at this season, instead of coinciding with the ancient route across the plain to Lema, follows that to Tegea, as far as the Kefalari, or sources of the Erasinus. At 2.35 I quit the theatre of Argos. At 3.16 cross the Erasinus, just below the mills of Kefalari, from whence the road, leaving that of Tripolitza on the right, traverses the plain in a direct line to the other mills, at the north-eastern angle of the gulf, which are called the AfendikiMyli: 3.41, Skafidhaki, a small village, is on the foot of the hills to the right, a little beyond the torrent which I have already mentioned as descending from the opening in Mount Creopolus, through which passes the road from Anapli to Akhladho-kambo,.