her of his fidelity, while his evident and trembling emotion in the cell of the temple, was the circumstance of all others, that defied all conjectures as toits cause. After having given near two hours rest to their mules, the travellers proceeded on their journey; and passing through the romantic and ruined village of Stimati, pursued their route to the east, still keeping among those hills, which swell from the base of Pentlicus towards the shores of the Ægean-sea. Kyra, peevish, from an impatience natural to her character, and from a fatigue to which her years and infirmities were unequal, sought to vent her humour on Stephaniki, whom she accused of not knowing the direct way, and of conducting them by a circuitous path. According to the ancient superstition of her country, she drew unfavourable omens from the clouds that floated on the summit of

Egaleos, and began a story of a certain captain of Haidouts (or Turkish robbers,) who lurked among the lesser hills of Pentelicus, and kept a pirate boat off the neighbouring coast. Ida perceived the effect this produced on the childish imaginations of her brothers, and aware of the fertility of Grecian memories in tales of wonder and of interest, she requested Stephaniki to relate them one. Stephaniki, flattered by the command, continued to amuse them with many heathen stories and christian legends, partly related in bad Greek, and frequently interspersed with Arabic phrases, Turkish idioms, and corrupt Italian.

And now, the sun declining towards the Athenian plains hastened to repose his glories in the gulph of Engia -the clouds which floated in the atmosphere gave back his purple reflexes with softened splendour.

The mountain path of the travellers still illuminated by his beam afforded them a prospect view of the Ægean, gleaming between the rich coasts of its numerous islands ;-and the hut of a goat-herd hanging on the virid point of some neighbouring eminence, the minaret of a little Turkish mosque, or the towers of a Greek convent, were the only vestiges of man, that diversified a scene, wild and romantic beyond description; while a pilgrim, returning from Mecca, a wandering Santon, and a peasant, driving a mule laden with milk and figs for a dervise-convent; were the only persons who crossed the path of the timid fugitives. The shadows of evening now deepened round them; the wearied birds of day, wheeling their circling flight above their heads, sought the lowland shelter, and the solitary birds

of night, emerging from their cavernous nests, mingled their melancholy cries, while the sea hoot of the Athenian (or horned) owl, and the fainting moan of the grey-bittern, were clearly distinguishable, amidst sounds of lesser interest.

Proceeding through a rocky defile, they now found themselves on the eastern coast of Livadia, by the strait of Euripus; and at a little distance they perceived the promontory of Cynosura, stretching its shadow across the shoreand the cavern alluded to by the archon in his letter, discovered its yawning mouth to their view. The wearied travellers alighted, and entered their desolate asylum. It was profound and dark, and the Paramana and the children, less sensible of the dangers they had escaped, than of the existing impressions they received, gazed around

them with humid eyes, while they started at the fluttering of the sea-birds, which their presence chased from their ancient haunt, and trembled at the sea-blast that rushed through the subterraneous avenues of the cave.

Ida observed, and endeavoured to dissipate their sadness and their fears; while the melancholy which oppressed her own heart, was of a more profound nature, than that which touched their imaginations.-Cheering them by a thousand tender expressions of encouragement and hope, she assisted Stephaniki to strike a light, lit up the branches of a blasted tree, that lay within the cave; and engaged Kyra to prepare what remained of their refreshments for their supper. This little bustle of occupations revived their spirits, and engrossed their thoughts. The cavern, illuminated by a blazing fire, lost much of its terrific