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to render these Ruins more than usually in- CHAP. 
. VII 
teresting. The remains, such as they are, lie as 
they were left by the antient votaries of the god: 
no modern buildings, not even an Albanian hut, 
has been constructed among them, to confuse 
or to conceal their topography, as it generally 
happens among the vestiges of Grecian cities : 
the traveller walks at once into the midst of the 
consecrated Peribolus, and, from the traces he 
beholds, may picture to his mind a correct 
representation of this once celebrated watering- 
place the Cheltenham of ANTIENT GREECE as 
it existed when thronged by the multitudes 
who came hither for relief or relaxation. Until 
within these few years, every vestige remained 
which might have been necessary to complete a 
plan of the antient inclosure and the edifices it 
contained*. The Ligurians, in the time of 
Chandler, remembered the removal of a marble 
chair from the theatre, and of statues and inscrip- 
tions which were used in repairing the fortifica- 
tions of Nauplia, and in building a mosque at 
(2) Sir W. Cell, from the remains existing at the time of our visit 
to the place, afterwards completed a very useful Plan, as a Guide for 
Travellers, both of the inclosure and its environs : this was engraved 
for his " Itinerary of Greece." See Plate facing p. 108 of that work. 
Land. 1610. 
