406 PELOPONNESUS. 
CI^AP. making other donations. We soon came to 
< , what we supposed to have been the ground- 
Temple of plot of the Temple: its remains are seen only at 
jEscula- . ' J 
pint. one extremity, but the oblong plane upon which 
this immense fabric stood is clearly marked out 
by the traces of its foundations. We had no 
sooner arrived, than we were convinced that 
the time we proposed to dedicate to these Ruins 
would by no means prove adequate to any 
proper survey of them: we found enough to 
employ the most diligent traveller during a 
month, instead of a single day. Near to the 
stadium, temple is the Stadium; and its appearance illus- 
trates a disputed passage in Pausanias 1 , for it 
consisted principally of high banks of earth, 
which were only partially covered with seats. 
We observed here a subterraneous vaulted pas- 
sage, now choked with rubbish, which con- 
ducted into its area 2 , on the left side of it, and 
near to the principal entrance. This Stadium 
has fifteen rows of seats ; but the seats are 
only at the upper end of the structure : the rest 
is of earth, heaped so as to form its sides. The 
(1) Vid. Pausan. CorintTi. .. $7. p. 173. lib. xiv. cum Annot. 
Xylttnd. et Sylb. Edit. Kuhnii. Lips. 1696- 
(2) Chandler says, it was a private way, by which the Agonothetee, 
or Presidents, with the priests and persons of distinction, entered. See 
Trav. in Greece, p. 225. 
