a town, or rather village, of Turkey in Asia, in the province of Libadla; occupying part of the site of the ancient Delphi. See DELPHI.

A late traveller* informs us, that some vestiges of *Chandler's temples are visible; and above them in the mountain Travels in fide, are sepulchres, niches, and horizontal cavities for Greece. the body, some covered with slabs. Farther on is a niche cut in the rock with a seat, intended, it seems, for the accommodation of travellers wearied with the ragged track and the long ascent. The monastery is on the side of the gymnasium. Strong terrace walls and other traces of a large edifice remain. The village is at a distance. Castalia is on the right hand as you ascend to it, the water coming from or high and crossing the road; a steep precipice, above which the mountain still rises immensely, continuing on in that direction. The village consists of a few poor cottages of Albanians covering the site of the temple and oracle. Beneath it to the south is a church of St Elias, with areas, terrace-walls, arches, and vestiges of the buildings once within the court. The concavity of the rock in this part gave to the site the resemblance of a theatre. Turning to the left hand, as it were toward the extremity of one of the wings, you come again to sepulchres hewn in the rock, and to a semicircular recess or niche with a seat as on the other side. Higher up than the village is the hollow of the stadium, in which were some seats and scattered fragments.

Higher up, within the village, is a piece of ancient wall, concealed from view by a shed, which it supports. The stone is brown, rough, and ordinary, probably that of Parnassus. On the south side are many inscriptions, with wide gaps between the letters, which are negligently and faintly cut; all nearly of the same tenor, and very difficult to copy. They register the purchase of slaves who had entrusted the price of their freedom to the god: containing the contract between Apollo and their owners, witnessed by his priests and by some of the archons. This remnant seems to be part of the wall before Castolis; as above it is still a fountain, which supplies the village with excellent water, it is likely from the ancient source.

The water of Castalia in the neighbourhood, from which the Pythia, and the poets who verified her answers, were believed to derive a large share of their inspiration, descends through a cleft of Parnassus; the rock on each side high and steep, ending in two summits; of which one was called Hyampia, and had beneath it the sacred portion of Autonous, a local hero as distinguished as Phylacus. From this precipice the Delphians threw down the famous Aesop. By the stream within the cleft, are seen small broken stairs leading to a cavity in which is water, and once perhaps up to the top. Grooves have been cut, and the marks of tools are visible on the rock; but the current, instead of supplying a fountain, now passes over its native bed, and hastes down a course deep-worn to join the Plistus. Close by, at the foot of the eastern precipice, precipice, is a bason with steps on the margin, once, it is likely, the bath used by the Pythia. Above, in the side of the mountain, is a pretty church dedicated to St John, within which are excavations resembling niches, partly concealed from view by a tree.