On either side of the road young girls stood with pitchers at the fountains which bubbled there, and behind the houses forming the propylaea of the rock rose the massive forehead of the Isle — crested at this part with its enormous ramparts as with a mural crown.

eruptive rocks, such as the igneous or volcanic

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Xenophon, it is true, ſays, word for word, in his account of the battle of Mantinea, that Epaminondas formed an embolon of infantry, which which he advanced to ſhock the enemy, as one galley does another with its beak. […] In this paſſage, I cannot think the word embolon means any more than a vast ſquadron of great depth; and what ſhould hinder our underſtanding it, when ſpoken of infantry, in the ſame ſenſe?