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the fpot where the Nemean games were 

 celebrated. We found fome columns 

 ftanding there among the ruins of a tem- 

 ple. Thefe were alfo of the Doric order ; 

 the height of the ihaft of the columns 

 was fix diameters, which feems to have 

 been the proportion generally followed 

 in Pliny's time ; but, from the meafures 

 of fome of the principal buildings at A- 

 thens which I took before, I find, that 

 five diameters was the general ftandard 

 there. We intend to leave this place in a 

 day or two, and think of taking a view 

 of the mines of Megara andEleufis in our 

 way to Athens. 



Your defiring me, Sir, to give you 

 fome of my remarks now and then, will, 

 I hope, apologize for my troubling you 

 with thefe, taken from my notes rather 

 in a hurry. I fend this by a (hip loading 

 corn here for Marfailles, and the mailer 

 of the veffel promifes me to take good 

 care of it: After vifiting the ruins of A- 

 thens once more, and fome of the iflands 

 in our way to Smyrna, I intend to take 



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