Along the shore the plain extends to the length of six miles--inland it exceeds two.

He who surveys it now looks over a dreary waste, whose meager and arid herbage is relieved but by the scanty foliage of unfrequent shrubs or pear-trees, and a few dwarf pines drooping towards the sea.

Here and there may be seen the grazing buffalo, or the peasant bending at his plough:--a distant roof, a ruined chapel, are not sufficient evidences of the living to interpose between the imagination of the spectator and the dead.

Such is the present Marathon--we are summoned back to the past.
IV.

It will be remembered that the Athenians were divided into ten tribes at the instigation of Clisthenes.