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following evenings examining its contents. He has been so 

 kind as to make a drawing of it, which will explain their ap- 

 pearance far more clearly than any thing that I can say*. 

 They are engraved and described by Ellis in the Philosophical 

 TransactionSf vol. Ivii. and in his Corallines and Zoophytes ; 

 but as I have no where seen them described as luminous, I 

 have ventured to give you this account, as it is interesting to 

 you, and I am, my dear Sir, 



Very truly yours, 



EvERARD Home. 



The Newly Discovered Temple at Cadachioy in the Island of 

 Corfu, illustrated by William Railton, Architect. Folio, 

 London. Priestley and Weale. 1828. 



At Cadachio, situate about a mile and a half to the south-east 

 of the city of Corfu, in the Ionian island of that name, are 

 springs which rise in a ravine of Mount Ascension, at the foot 

 of which, on the edge of the sea, is a fountain or reservoir into 

 which the water they supply is received, and which is resorted 

 to by the ships which frequent the adjacent port, in order to 

 fill their casks. 



In the autumn of 1822, the springs, upon which, among other 

 vessels, those of the British navy depend for water, w^ere 

 unusually low ; and the government, in consequence, directed 

 that a party of engineers, under the orders of Colonel Whitmore, 

 should endeavour to free the mouth of the ravine from that 

 accumulation of soil which appears to be annually brought 

 down, and of which the quantity appeared to have impeded or, 

 perhaps, diverted the descent or course of the waters. In the 

 process of excavation, a Doric column was discovered in situ ; 

 and that event induced Colonel Whitmore to make a search, 

 by which was brought to light the ground plan of a temple. 

 The columns of the west, or land-side, were in their places ; 

 as were also five on the south, and two on the north, but in a 

 very mutilated state. " The walls of the cella have been re- 



* We have taken our two wood cuts from this beautiful drawing, and 

 regret our inability to give the other figure. 



