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mentioned 4 . It flows in a deep ravine after CHAP. 
IX. 
leaving the plain, and then passes between the ' 
mountains which separate the Nemecean Plain 
from that of Sicyon. On either side of the 
rivulet the rocks appeared to consist of a 
whitish chalky limestone. As we rode along 
the left bank of the rivulet, we saw, upon our 
right, a table mountain, believed by Chandler* to 
be the Apesas of Pausanias, where Perseus was 
said to have sacrificed to Jupiter. Its flat top* 
he says, is visible in the GuJph of Corinth. We 
passed some ruined Chapels upon our left. 
Almost every building of this kind in Greece has 
been erected upon the ruins of some Pagan 
sanctuary ; for which reason they are always 
worthy of a particular examination. After 
riding about two hours along the Neme^an 
rivulet, we suddenly quitted its course upon our 
right, and beheld Sicyon, occupying an elevated 
situation upon some whitish cliffs. Here we 
noticed a Tomb and Ruins upon our right hand r 
and immediately descended iato the great fertile 
plain which extends along the Sinus Cor in- sicyon 
thiacus, between Sicyon and Corinth. Soon after 
(1 ) " tamcn avia serrat 
Et ncmus, et fluvium." Stal. Tkel * lib. iv. 
(5) Trav. in Greece, p. 233. Oxf. 1776. 
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