or CASTRI as it is most frequently named by the inhabitants, a wretched village in the province of Livadia, consisting of about seventy houses, which occupy the site of the ancient city of Delphi. The remains of the gymnasium, stadium, and other buildings, are still extant in its vicinity; but except these, and the stories connected with them, it has now little to recommend it to the notice of travellers beyond the splendid prospect which it commands of the surrounding country.

DELTA is a part of Lower Egypt, included in the space between the branches of the Nile and the Mediterranean Sea. The ancients called it the Isle of Delta, because it is in the shape of a triangle, like the Greek letter of that name. It is about a hundred and thirty miles along the coast from Damietta to Alexandria, and seventy on the sides from the place where the Nile begins to divide itself. It is the most fruitful country in all Egypt, but the fertility is chiefly owing to the periodical inundations of the river Nile. The principal towns on the coast are Damietta, Rosetta, and Alexandria.