48'2 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, there seems also an allusion by Pausanias, in 
* / i 
the obscure account he gives of a channel con- 
ducting the water of the Cephissus beneath a 
temple dedicated to that river 1 . But there are 
other appearances of subterraneous structures 
requiring considerable attention ; some of these 
are upon the hill : they are covered, like the 
Cyclopean gallery of Tiryns, with large approach- 
ing stones, meeting so as to form an arched 
way which is only visible where these stones 
are open 2 . Among them the traveller may look 
for the subterraneous edifice with the brazen 
Thalamus constructed by Acrmus for his daugh- 
ter s . There is also a large church at the southern 
extremity of the town, containing fragments of 
Ionic columns and inscriptions 4 . One of the 
mosques is said to have been erected with 
blocks brought from the Grove of jEsculapius in 
Eptdaturia*\ the same circumstance was also 
alluded to by Chandler*. Perhaps the time 
may arrive when a more enlightened people than 
(1) Pausan. in Corinth, c. 20. p. 156. eJ. Kuhnii. 
(2) GeU's Itin. of Greece, p. 66. J^ond. 1810. 
(3) Pausan. ut supra, c. 23. p. 1G4. 
(4) GelFs Itin. of Greece, p. 69. 
(5) Ibid. 
(6) See C/mnttler's Trav. in Greece, p. 226.. Qjcf. 1776. Also the 
preceding Chapter of this Volume. 
