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northern wall, you come to the ruins of another CHAP. 
large Temple, consisting of prodigious masses of 
stone and marble. Here, then, was one of the 
temples before mentioned; perhaps that of Nep- 
tune, being so near to the port. At a distance 
to the right in what we have considered as 
the Rharian Plain, is another considerable Ruin, 
a part whereof is yet standing; and the founda- 
tions of other structures may be discerned. 
All this plain, between the Acropolis and the 
sea, is covered with the fragments of former 
works; and upon this side was the Theatre; the 
Theatre. 
form of which may be distinctly traced upon 
the slope of the hill, near the southern wall 
leading to the sea. Upon the summit of the 
Acropolis are the vestiges of the Ciladel; also AcTO P alls - 
some excavations, which were used as cisterns, 
similar to those of other cities in the Pelopon- 
nesus. Looking down upon the great Thriasian 
Plain from the top of this rock (whose shape is 
an oblong parallelogram, lying nearly parallel 
to the shore), the back of the spectator being 
towards the sea, the remains of the TEMPLE 
OF CERES appear at the foot of the north-west 
angle; and to the left of this, in the road to 
Megara, exactly as it is described by Pausanias, 
in the very beginning of the route, is the Well 
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