5-26 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, makes a conspicuous figure, as seen from this 
temple towards the south-east. A poor village, 
consisting of three or four huts, somewhat 
farther in the plain to the north of this moun- 
tain, and north-east of the temple, now occupies 
the situation of the antient village of Nemea. 
It bears the name of Colonna; probably be- 
stowed upon it in consequence of these Ruins. 
One of its inhabitants, coming from those huts, 
joined our company at the Temple. He told 
us that there were formerly ninety columns all 
standing at this place ; and the other inhabitants 
of his little village persisted in the same story. 
The columns now remaining, and the broken 
shafts of many other lying near to them, 
are grooved: they measure four feet ten 
inches in diameter. The stones of the foun- 
dation of the Temple are of very great size. 
We observed the wild pear-tree, mentioned 
by Chandler 1 so many years before, still 
growing among the stones on one side of the 
Ruin. He pitched his tent within the cell of 
the Temple, " upon its clear and level area." 
Not having such comfortable means of accom- 
modation for the night, we accompanied the 
(1) See Chandler's Travels in Greece, p. 332. Oxford, 1776. 
