470 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, visited as the County of Derbyshire, and where 
v_,-y'./ the traveller is not exposed to half the dangers 
encountered every night in the neighbourhood 
of London. Groundless apprehensions, calcu- 
lated only to alarm children, concerning ima- 
ginary banditti, and the savage nature of its 
inhabitants, have been hitherto powerful enough 
to prevent travellers from exploring its interior: 
but these are beginning to vanish ; and we may 
hope that many years will not elapse before the 
shepherds of Arcadia and Laconiu, of Messenia 
and Elis, will have become as good guides to 
the antiquities of their mountains and valleys, 
as the natives of Puzzoli now are to the Ruins 
of Bai<e. 
Antiqui- The antiquities of Argos, once so numerous 1 , 
ties. 
may now be comprised within a very short list. 
A brief summary of them as they existed in the 
second century, omitting the catalogue of xtatues 
and altars, may be useful for future travellers : 
we shall therefore introduce it, followed by a 
description of the principal remains, as we 
found them ; for these are not likely to be much 
(l) See the long list of them in the Second Book of Pausanias, 
chapters 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, from p. 149 to p. 167, of the 
edition by Kuhnius. Lips. 1696. 
