III.
The next fair weather that came, we went to visit the Isle Colouri, of old time Salavis. To go to it we left the way to Eleusia on our right hand, as soon as we were out of the Town; and about a mile or two further, we came to the Wood of Olives; through which we passed, by a place called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, where they dig a reddish and fat Earth, which they make Tiles and Pots of; and is, in all likelyhood, the place where the ancient Town Keramaea once stood: taking from the Potters trade both its old name and new. Near unto this Town was the famous Aca∣demia, from which all other places, celebrated for the liberal Sciences and Learning, have borrowed the name of Academy. Nevertheless, fa∣mous as it hath been, and is still in great renown, yet is the memory of it here utterly rased out, and its situation so obscurely marked and set out by ancient Writers, that it hath been almost an insuperable dif∣ficulty to determine where it was. Some have placed it in the way to Capo Colouni, from Suidas his calling it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, an high place: there being none such in this way, but only in that. Wherefore I was much of that opinion also: But my Comrade shewed me my error; be∣lieving that Suidas might have some other reason for his calling it a high place, than that which I thought of: And it seems very probable to have been only from the Tower that was there, from which they be∣gan their Races, they ran with lighted Torches in the Panathenian Games. Moreover it is plain by that passage in Cicero, that Ceramica, was but six Stadia from the gate Dipylon; called in times more ancient, Porta Thriasia, because it led to the Town Thria, which was most certain∣ly towards Eleusis, behind the Hill Corydalis. And it is no less certain out of ancient Authors, that Ceramicus and Academia were together, six Stadia from Athens, either upon, or nigh unto, the Eleusinian Road. But there is now nothing remaining of it, save only a small Church, hard by, which seems to be built out of more ancient ruins; among