a: 111c "Phelleus were full of rich earth, and there was abundance of wood in the mountains. Of this last the traces still remain, for although some of the mountains now only afford sustenance to bees, ...and there were many other high trees, cultivated..."
b: 111c"...not so very long ago there were still to be seen roofs of timber cut from trees growing there, which were of a size sufficient to cover the largest houses..."
c: 111d "Moreover, the land reaped the benefit of the annual rainfall, not as now losing the water which flows off the bare earth into the sea, but, having an abundant supply in all places, and receiving it into herself and treasuring it up in the close clay soil, it let off into the hollows the streams which it absorbed from the heights, providing everywhere abundant fountains and rivers, of which there may still be observed sacred memorials in places where fountains once existed"
d: 112b "the warrior class dwelt by themselves around the temples"
e: 110d "...that the boundaries were in those days fixed by the Isthmus, and that in the direction of the continent they extended as far as the heights of Cithaeron and Parnes..."
f: 110d & e"...the boundary line came down in the direction of the sea, having the district of Oropus on the right, and with the river Asopus as the limit on the left."