Copy 1, Volume 1

Travels in the Morea. With a map and plans / By William Martin Leake.

  • William Martin Leake
Date:
1830
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels in the Morea. With a map and plans / By William Martin Leake. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forms, they present a very picturesque scenery, quite peculiar to this district. Olympia was situated in the midst of this beautiful country. The hills are intersected by many small streams, flowing to the Alpheius, which winds along a narrow lower valley very subject to inundation. Feb. 23.—■Elis stood on the edge of the plain where the Peneius issues from the hills, on the northern side of one of them, at a dis¬ tance of about eight miles by the road from Gastuni. The hill of Elis is conspicuous above the others by its superior height, its peaked form, and by a ruined tower on the summit. Both the height and the tower are now called Kaloskopi 5 a name which the Venetians, having translated it into Belvedere, applied to one of the five districts into which they divided the Morea. But the most remarkable of all the natural features of this part of the Eleici, is the great insulated rock called the mountain of Portes or Sandameria,two villages which are situ¬ ated in a narrow valley watered by a branch of the Peneius, which separates the mountain of Portes from the great heights of G'lonos. The southern extremity of the rocky summit is about eight miles to the north-east of Kaloskopi. Near the foot of Kaloskopi are two or three small vil¬ lages, which, from their standing on the site of a To j3ovvi TIo^toc'lkov or £covTaJus£k<m*ot'.
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