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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt:...generally at a well not far from the theatre at Paleépoli, which has the reputation of yielding the best water in the neighbourhood. This I did not see, which I regret, as it seems to be the well of ZEsculapius, mentioned by Pausanias. Those who are not very nice, fill their casks at the mill mentioned April 3d, 10.55, where the water is nearer the shore, and more accessible. I walk this afternoon to Mavrovnni', a village situated on a promontory, one mile and a half to the southward of Marathonisi: it overlooks the plain of Passava, which extends for three or four miles along the shore, and to an equal distance in the interior. Both the plain and the hills around it are well cultivated, and have several pyrghi and small villages upon them. Further westward, a long root of Mount T aygetum stretches to the south, called Makryaraki, or Long-ridge "; it is covered with a forest of the veléni-oak, and is supposed to produce half the vallonéa shipped at Marathonisi: behind this are seen other-higher mountains, extending to the gulf of Koroni, which are connected northward with the great which it somewhat resembles. wrong who propose to subWhence it appears that the stitute 1rgTvo; for a-xm; in the comparison of Pausanias was preceding passage. peculiarly proper, and that 1 MmugoBmSw. those commentators are in the b M""""i'"I summits of Mount Taygetum, of which the southernmost peaked one, probably the ancient T aletum, is the most remarkable object in view: it is known in Mani by the name of Makryné. At the foot of the peak, to the westward, stood Pigadhia, now ruined, the native village and retreat of the robber Zakharia, long the terror of the Moréa. To the south, the peninsula of Cape Matapa...