The Cruise of the Branwen

FROM ITALY TO GREECE called "Prion." Now "Prion" is the Greek for a "saw," and if the captain makes for the serrated edge of the sierra he will see, he will go too far south and lose his ship. The rounded hill of Coressus on which Ephesus is built is, on the contrary, the "Pion" (" sleek, plump, or rounded," in the Greek) for which he should have shaped his course ; and every guide book falls into the same mistake, which is perpetuated in the index of Schubart's edition of Pausanias, where the sad error of "Pion vel Prion " is observable, referring to the passage (vii. v. 10) where Mount Pion is mentioned in the description of the geography of Ephesus. Mark Twain's " Innocents Abroad " is, however, entirely correct. " Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings ..." But I must say no more of Homer and the "Pilot's Guide" until the yacht is on her journeys once again. It was on our way to anchorage in the Bay of Phalerum (which is far better than the Piraeus, except when a particular wind blows from the south-east, and this rarely happens in spring) that we had our first sight of the Acropolis.