. A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. RUINS OF PHRIXA. 341 and feet in endeavouring to avoid the edge of the precipice. Twoof our luggage horses, who were prevented by the projection of theluggage from keeping sufficiently to the right, rolled down the pre-cipice to the left, and must have been dashed to pieces if their fallhad not been mitigated by the beds and sacks with which they wereloaded, and stopped by the trees in the descent. It took us near an hour (not including stoppages) in ascendingfrom the foot of the hill to the village of
. A classical and topographical tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806. RUINS OF PHRIXA. 341 and feet in endeavouring to avoid the edge of the precipice. Twoof our luggage horses, who were prevented by the projection of theluggage from keeping sufficiently to the right, rolled down the pre-cipice to the left, and must have been dashed to pieces if their fallhad not been mitigated by the beds and sacks with which they wereloaded, and stopped by the trees in the descent. It took us near an hour (not including stoppages) in ascendingfrom the foot of the hill to the village of Palaio Phanari. Wewere entertained in the pyrgos of a Turk, brother-in-law of Mus-tapha agha of Lalla, who gave us a kind and hospitable Phanari is inhabited by Greeks, and composed of thatchedcottages, like Miraka. The summit of the pointed hill, which risesa short distance to the west of the village, is crowned with the re-mains of a fortress, or acropolis, probably that of Phrixa, consistingof large square blocks, which composed the walls. Herodotusattributes the fou
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