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Title: A tour in Greece, 1880
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Farrer, Richard Ridley
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Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons
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m with the twin summits of Parnassus.Delphi being on the Parnassus range, it was of course justifi-able to transfer some of its attributes and sanctity to thewhole mountain. But the two great culminating points aremiles behind the town, and completely hidden until thePha^driades have been surmounted. A glance at these preci-pices explains the alleged miraculous delivery of the shrineboth from Persian and Celtic desecration. On each occasionhuf^e masses of rock are said to have detached themselves O and fallen upon the impious barbarian hosts, amid earth-quake and thunder and the appearance of the native heroes,reawakened from the dead to defend their much-loved andsacred home. A minute examination on the following day adds but little to the awe and interest excited by the first general view. Castalian There is the Castalian fount springing forth in tlie fissure between the two rocks. A landslip five years ago choked the source, which is not yet clear of debris. The quadrangular fount.
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THE PHOGIAN ALPS. 125 stone basin wherein the water was collected is, however, againcleaned out. The natural rock behind it has been scarped,and sundry little niches cut to contain votive offerings. Tliisholy stream, employed in all the ritual of the sanctuary, isnow extraordinarily scanty. Perhaps it was never muchmore abundant, and merely offers a striking instance of theGreek capacity for surrounding trivial things with a haloof beauty and good taste: perhaps, like the Pleistos, itshrank before the dread voice that drove Apollo with hollowshriek from the steep of Delphos and his old propheticshrine. Leaving this now, alas ! not too limpid stream, we inspectthe other remains, consisting of little more than the founda-tions of old buildings, which on that steep declivity wereobliged to be unusually massive. Unlike most of the wallsthat the traveller is daily called upon to visit, there is one atDelphi which is really interesting. It appears to have formedpart of the substructions of

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