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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 262 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ELEUSIS , an See also:

ancient See also:Greek See also:city in See also:Attica about 14 M. N.W. of See also:Athens, occupying the eastern See also:part of a rocky See also:ridge See also:close to the See also:shore opposite the See also:island of See also:Salamis.' Its fame is due chiefly to its Mysteries, for which see See also:MYSTERY. Tradition carries back the origin of Eleusis to the highest antiquity. In the earlier See also:period of its See also:history it seems to have been an See also:independent See also:rival of Athens, and it was afterwards reckoned one of the twelve Old See also:Attic cities. A considerable portion of its small territory was occupied by the plains of Thria, noticeable for their fertility, though the hopes of the husbandmen were not unfrequently disappointed by the blight of the See also:south See also:wind. To the See also:west was the lleMov 'Papwv or Rharian See also:Plain, where See also:Demeter is said to See also:Primitive 6th. See also:Century 5th. & 4th. Century Macedonian See also:Roman See also:Scale of Metres I0 2p 30 40 Scale of Yards 1P z0 See also:j0 40 5o r climbing See also:plants with slender herbaceous or shrubby shoots, to which belong the See also:yam and the See also:British See also:black bryony, Tamus communis.

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