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monument of his fame, as the glorious sepul- CHAP. 
chre which chance assigned to the memory of 
TWEDDELL, when it caused him to be buried in 
the Temple of Theseus. 
Chandler says that the Temple of Minerva 
Sunias was within the wall of the old town 2 . 
We saw no remains of this town; but we 
were induced to believe, from the appearance 
of some ruins upon an opposite hill, on the 
northern side of the port, that these were 
the remains of Sunium. The impatience of 
our mariners prevented our visiting those 
ruins, although they have been hitherto \in- 
described. They seemed to be too near to 
have belonged to Laurium. Among the remains 
of the temple we found the point of an antient 
lance, and many fragments of terra-cotta vessels, 
those indestructible and infallible testimonies of 
places resorted to by the dntient Greeks. As 
soon as we had descended to the caique, our 
Captain weighed anchor, and set sail for the 
PIRAEUS, now called Porto Lione, distant forty- 
two miles from the Cape; but we had no sooner 
entered the channel, between the Island 
(2) Trar. in Greece, p. 7. Or/. 1776. See also feeler's Journey 
into Greece, Book vi. p. 448. Lond. 1682. 
