Zeus : a study in ancient religion . The summit of Mount Olympos. [By permission of Messrs Boissonnas, Geneva.] See page 905 n. o f. The Mountain-cults qf Zeus 905 117. My statement that the pubHshed illustrations of the mountain are very inadequate(i. roT n. 3) no longer holds good. A. J. Mann—W. T. Wood The Salonika FrontLondon iq^o pi. 7 give a coloured silhouette of Olympos as seen from Mikra, the repro-duction of a fine original owned by G. Windsor-Clive. And the noble viewof the summit here shown (pi. xl) is from a large heliogravure of exceptional merit pub-lished by F. Boi

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Zeus : a study in ancient religion . The summit of Mount Olympos. [By permission of Messrs Boissonnas, Geneva.] See page 905 n. o f. The Mountain-cults qf Zeus 905 117. My statement that the pubHshed illustrations of the mountain are very inadequate(i. roT n. 3) no longer holds good. A. J. Mann—W. T. Wood The Salonika FrontLondon iq^o pi. 7 give a coloured silhouette of Olympos as seen from Mikra, the repro-duction of a fine original owned by G. Windsor-Clive. And the noble viewof the summit here shown (pi. xl) is from a large heliogravure of exceptional merit pub-lished by F. Boissonnas of Geneva. D. Urquhart The Spirit of the East London 1838 i. 398 lif. describes Math muchenthusiasm, but little precision, his ascent of Olympos in 1830 : I spent no more than anhour at this giddy height, where the craving of my eyes would not have been satisfiedunder a week. I seemed to stand perpendicularly over the sea, at the height of 10,000feet. Salonica was quite distinguishable, lying north-east; Larissa appeared u

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