M G I N A. 
resolved to continue our voyage as soon as we CHAP. 
had landed Lusieri and the Calmuck*. Sailing ^ - T -'_- 
round the north-western point of the island, we Antiqui- 
i , ties near to 
observed a very large barrow, upon the shore : the Port, 
this is noticed by Chandler 3 as the mound of earth 
(yfiiui) raised by Telamon after the death of 
Phocus, as it was seen by Pausanias in the second 
century 4 . Near to this mound there was a 
(2) We had good reason afterwards to repent of our folly in making 
this resolution ; fr although Chandler spent some time upon the island, 
it has, in fact, been little visited by travellers. Lusieri found here 
both medals and votes in such great number, that he was under the 
necessity of dismissing the peasants who had amassed them, without 
purchasing more than half that were brought to him ; although they 
were offered for a very trifling consideration. The medals and the 
vases which he collected were of very high antiquity. The medals 
were either in silver or lead; and of that rude globular form, with the 
tortoise on one side, and a mere indentation on the other, which is well 
known to characterize the earliest Grecian coinage : indeed, the art 
of coining money was first introduced by the inhabitants of this island- 
Of the terra-colta vases which he collected, we afterwards saw several 
in his possession : they were small, but of the most beautiful work- 
manship; and as a proof of their great antiquity, it is necessary only 
to mention that the subjects represented upon them were historical, 
and the paintings monochromatic; Hack, upon a red ground. We 
have since recommended it to persons visiting Greece, to be diligent 
in their researches upon jEoiNA ; and many valuable antiquities hare 
been consequently discovered upon the island. 
(5) Travels in Greece, p. 15. Otford, 1776. 
(4) Ourtii if ret xgurrii xa.\ovfilw Xvptra \ff\iutts ivxruf. Itrtlu ^Sft. 
cu rtura fiit l|ijyas/, KOJ is upas tn piti. fPausan. Corinth' C. 29. 
p. 180. Lips, 169G.) In a preceding passage of the tame chapter, it it 
stated* 
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