There, flowery hill, Hymettus, with the sound

Of bees’ industrious murmurs, oft invites

To studious musing; there Ilissus rolls

His whispering stream; within the walls there view

The schools of ancient sages, his who bred

Great Alexander to subdue the world!”



LETTER XXVI.

The Piræus—The Sacra Via—Ruins of Eleusis—Gigantic Medallion—Costume of the Athenian Women—The Tomb of Themistocles—The Temple of Minerva—Autographs.