Volume 4

Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke.

  • Clarke, Edward Daniel, 1769-1822.
Date:
1810-1823
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Credit: Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa / By Edward Daniel Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAP. II. Kalingi. Capandritti. Upon the highest part of this route over Parncs, we noticed some ruins; and perhaps hereabouts were the altars and the bronze image mentioned by Pausanias'. Soon afterwards we entered the village of Kalingi, distant about five miles, or one hour and a half, from Marathon. Here we saw a fragment of white marble which had evidently been used in some antient building. From Kalingi, or Kalinga (for the pronunciation varied), we descended to a village whose name we have not preserved; consisting only of two or three dwellings, and as many mills; but situated in the most picturesque manner, in a valley adorned with beautiful trees, surrounded by mountains and the most stupendous rocks. From this sequestered spot we continued our journey, through a delightful and fertile valley, to another village, called Capandritti , distant three hours from Marathon, and one hour and a half from Kalingi. This place is mentioned by Wheler, as famous for good wine; Italy which is beheld, in the Apennines, from the heights above the cataract of Term in Umbria. The Boeotian territory being as highly diversified, accordingly as it is richly cultivated, or in parts wild, and filled with stately forests full of majestic oaks and pines; or interrupted and broken by bleak and naked rocks; presenting to the eye an amazing variety of colour, in its fields, and woods, and precipices. Indeed it may be said, that, amidst the changeful scenery which Nature is ever exhibiting to the eye of a traveller, it rarely happens that any very accurate resemblances can be traced ; and he who does not at all times command the power of delineation by his pencil, may consider himself to be fortunate, if, by any faithful comparison, he be enabled to convey to the minds of others an impression of what they have not seen, derived from what they have seen. Thousands have seen the rich territory of Umbria, not one of whom will ever behold the Plain of Bceotia. (l) Kctt ev Tldpvtjdi, Tlapvr'idioi•; Zeds ^aXicovs tan, Kal (iupos 'Zijpa.Xeov Aids’ %erri be ev ry HapypOi icai ctXXoc (jup.de' k.t.X. Paus. Attic, c. 32. p. 78. cd. Kuhnii. \