JOURNEY TO NEMEA. 521 
this defile occurs in Pausanias, and to its devia- CHAP. 
tion from the main road : he says there were 
two ways of going from Cleoncz to 4rgos ; one 
of them by Tretus, a narrow and a circuitous 
way, but the best carriage road of the two 3 . 
As we entered this defile, we travelled by the 
side of a rivulet of very clear water, through 
woods which were once the haunts of the 
famous Ncmceean Lion. The only animals we 
saw were some very fine tortoises. We passed 
one or two huts inhabited by wild-looking 
fellows, who told us they were the guards of 
the pass. They offered us water, and we gave 
them a few para*. Near this place, we observed 
the remains of the old road alluded to by 
Pausanias in his account of this defile : the 
marks of wheels were yet visible ; the surface 
of the stone being furrowed into ruts ; which 
must have been worn by the wheels of antient 
carriages 4 ; because vehicles of this kind are 
(3) 'Ex KXiavav Vi ilffn li *Ay; cSaJ eve' a ^iv iSa3V tv'^Mv&i; xn* l/rriv 
ItriroftAf, n 3s irt Tta xott.ciiiu.inu Tgr.rov, VTtiri ftit xeu o.u'rn *iit%o*Tat o>, 
t^ftaun Ss !-<> iu.v; t-riTr^titrt^. Pausan. ibid. p. 144. 
(4) Sir iy. Cell measured the distance between the furrows. Ao 
cording to Kis observation, the wheels of antient carriages " were 
placed at about the same distance from each other as in those of 
modern times." See Itin. of Greece, f. '-27. Loud. 1801. 
