in Ancient Geography, a town in Atti- ca, between Megara and the Piraeus, celebrated for the feftivals of Ceres. See the preceding article.—Thofe rites were finally extinguifhed in Greece upon the inva- fion of Alaric the Goth. Eleufis, on the overthrow of its goddef's and the ceftation of its gainful trafte, probably became foon an obfere place, without cha- racter or riches. For fome ages, however, it was not entirely forfaken, as is evident from the vail conufumption of the ancient materials, and from the prefent re- mains, of which the following account is given by Dr Chandler*. "The port was finall and of a circular * Travels form. The flores of one pier are feen above water, into Greece, and the correffponding fide may be traced. About half-a- mile from the fide is a long hill, which divides the plain. In the fide next the fea are traces of a theatre, and on the top are cutters cut in the rock. In the way to it, fome mafles of wall and rubble, partly ancient, are standing; with ruined churches; and beyond, a long broken aqueduct crofes to the mountains. The Christian pirates had infefted the place fo much, that in 1676 it was abandoned. It is now a small village at the caltern extremity of the rocky brow, on which was once a caftle; and is inhabited by a few Albanian fa- milies, employed in the culture of the plain, and super- intended by a Turk, who resides in an old fquare tower. The proprietor was Achmet Aga, the primate or prin- cipal perfon of Athens.

"The myflic temple at Eleufis was planned by Ictinus, the architect of the Parthenon. Pericles was overfeer of the building. It was of the Doric order; the cell fo large as to admit the company of a theatre. The columns on the pavement within, and their capi- tals, were raifed by Coroebus. Mentagenes of Xypete added the architraves and the pillars above them, which fustained the roof. Another completed the edifice. This was a temple in antis, or without exterior columns, which would have occupied the room required for the victims. The affect was changed to Prothylos under Demetrius the Phaleræan; Philo, a famous architect, erecting a portico, which gave dignity to the fabric, and rendered the entrance more commodious. The fite was beneath the brow, at the caft end, and encom- passed by the fortrefls. Some marbles, which are un- commonly maflive, and fome pieces of the columns, remain on the fpot. The breadth of the cell is about 150 feet; the length, including the pronaos and por- tico, is 216 feet; the diameter of the columns, which are fluted, 6 inches from the bottom of the shafts, is 6 feet and more than 6 inches. The temple was a de- cafyle, or had 10 columns in the front, which was to the caft. The peribolus or inclofure, which surround- ed it on the north-eaft and on the fouth fide, meafures 387 feet in length from north to fouth, and 328 feet in breadth from caft to weft. On the weft fide it join- ed the angles of the weft end of the temple in a straight line. Between the weft wall of the inclofure and temple and the wall of the citadel was a paflage of 42 feet 6 inches wide, which led to the summit of a high rock at the north-weft angle of the inclofure, on which are vifible the traces of a temple in antis, in length 74 feet 6 inches from north to fouth, and in breadth from the caft Eleutheria east to the wall of the citadel, to which it joined on the west, 54 feet. It was perhaps that sacred to Tripolomus. This spot commands a very extensive view of the plains and bay. About three-fourths of the cottages are within the precincts of the mystic temple, and the square tower stands on the ruined wall of the inclosure.

"At a small distance from the north end of the enclosure is a heap of marble, consisting of fragments of the Doric and Ionic orders; remains, it is likely, of the temples of Diana Propylea and of Neptune, and of the Propyleum or gateway. Wheler saw some large stones carved with wheat-ears and bundles of poppy. Near it is the butt of a colossal statue of excellent workmanship, maimed, and the face disfigured; the breadth at the shoulders, as measured by Pococke, five feet and a half; and the basket on the head above two feet deep. It probably represented Proteusine. In the heap are two or three inscribed pedestals; and on one are a couple of torches, crouched. We saw another fixed in the same stairs, which lead up the square tower on the outside. It belonged to the statue of a lady, who was hierophant or priestess of Proteusine, and had covered the altar of the goddess with silver. A well in the village was perhaps that called Callichorus, where the women of Eleusis were accustomed to dance in honour of Ceres. A tradition prevails, that if the broken statue be removed, the fertility of the land will cease. Achmet Aga was fully perplexed with this superstition, and declined permitting us to dig or measure there, until I had overcome his scruples by a present of a handsome snuff-box containing several zechins or pieces of gold."