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were not intended, each as a conspicuous place 
in the orchestra of the theatre to which it be- 
longed, for the better exhibition of those per- 
formers who contested prizes upon any musical 
instrument, or were engaged in any trial of 
skill, where one person only occupied the 
attention of the audience. The sculpture upon 
one of them, as thrice represented in the third 
volume of Stuarts Antiquities of Athens 1 , seems 
to favour this idea of their use ; because its 
ornaments are actually those prizes which were 
bestowed upon successful candidates; a vessel 
of the oil produced by the olive-tree that grew 
in the Academia ; and three wreaths, or chap- 
lets, with which victors at the Panathencea were 
crowned. 
Coroni. 
Proceeding southward from Ligurio, we soon 
arrived at a small village called Coroni*, whose 
(1) See Stttiirt's ADirns, vol. III. pp. 19, 29. " Whether they have 
ben seats for a magistrate in a court of judicature, or of officers in a 
Gymnasium, is not easily determined from their situation." Ibid. 
p. 35. Lond. 1794. 
(2) " Possibly an antient name taken from the Nymph Coronis, the 
mother of ^Esculupius." (GelCs Itinerary of Greece, p. 103. Lond. 
1810.) It were to be wished that thi* industrious traveller would 
replete the design originally announced by the appearance of this 
publication, and extend it to the rest of Greece, all of which has been 
visited 
