384 & G I N A. 
CHAP. been confirmed by other travellers 1 . About 
VII. J 
. .. > five, P.M. we were close in with /EGINA: and as 
we drew near to the island, we had a fine view 
Temple of of the magnificent remains of the Temple of 
Jupiter Panhellenius ; its numerous Doric columns 
standing in a most conspicuous situation upon 
the mountain Panhellenius, high above the north- 
eastern shore of the island, and rising among 
trees, as if surrounded by woods. This is the 
most antient and the most remarkable Ruin 
of all the temples in Greece: the inhabitants 
ot&gina, in a very remote age, maintained that 
it was built by ^Excus. Chandler had given 
so copious a description of dEgina, and of this 
temple, that to begin the examination of the 
island again, without being able to make any 
excavations, we considered as likely to be 
attended with little addition to our stock of in- 
formation ; and almost as an encroachment upon 
ground already well occupied. We therefore 
(l) The author having since consulted his friend, Mr. Hawkins, upon 
this subject, (whose trigonometrical surveys of Greece have proved the 
extreme inaccuracy even of our best maps of that Country,) has been 
informed by this eminent traveller, that the high mountain which is 
thus said to interlineate with the Acropolis, when viewed from the Isle 
now called Plataida (nx<r*<$), can be no other than CVLLENE, now 
Mount Zyria, in the Morea. 
