in which the name of Tithorea occurs. A considerable portion of the walls, and many of the towers, still remain. The town was carefully fortified towards the west and northwest, and was sufficiently protected towards the northeast and east by the precipitous banks of the Cachales, and towards the south by the steep sides of Mt. Parnassus. The walls are almost broad. The Cachales, which now bears the name of Kakóreuma, or the evil torrent, flows in a ravine below the village, and thus illustrates the statement of Pausanias, that the inhabitants descended to it in order to obtain water. Behind the village, ascending the Cachales, there is a cavern on the steep side of the rock, which, during the Greek War of Independence, received a great number of fugitives. It is very spacious, is supplied with excellent water, and is quite impregnable. This is probably the place where the inhabitants of Neon and the surrounding places took refuge in the Persian invasion, as the Delphians did in the Corycian cave, more especially as the height immediately above the village is not adapted for such a purpose. A difficult mule path leads at present through the ravine of the Cachales across the heights of Parnassus to Delphi. In the time of Pausanias there were two roads from Tithorea across the mountain to Delphi, one direct, the other longer, but practicable for carriages. In the territory of Tithorea, but at the distance of 70 stadia from the city, was a temple of Asclepius, and also, at the distance of 40 stadia, a shrine of Isis. The temple of Asclepius had an image of the god with a beard, made of stone, to which all the Phocians worshiped, and could sacrifice anything except goats. In the temple there were houses for the supplicants and for the servants of the temple and there was even a bed to the right of the image of Asclepius. The shrine of Isis was within a sacred precinct, where only those whom the goddess had invited in dreams could have access, according to the inhabitants of Tithorea. Celebrations were held in honor of Isis twice a year, in spring and at the end of autumn. Three days before each feast those who could access the site were purified with a secret rite; the first day, if they found any part of the victims of the previous feast,