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cause a famine to be felt over all the sur- CHAP. 
rounding districts 3 . . - T - - 
Within a mile of CORINTH we passed a 
Fountain in a cavern upon our right; formed by a 
dropping rock consisting of a soft sand-stone. 
Farther up the hill, and upon the same side of Corinth. 
the road, as we entered the straggling town 
now occupying the site of the antient city, we 
observed some Ruins, and a quantity of broken 
pottery scattered upon the soil. The old city 
occupied an elevated level above the rich plain we 
had now passed. Upon the edge of this natural 
terrace, where it begins to fall towards the corn 
land, we found the fluted shaft of a Doric pillar 
of limestone, equal in its dimensions to any of the 
columns of the Temple of Jupiter Qlympius at 
Athens : it was six feet and one inch in diameter. 
Close to this we observed the ground-plot of a 
building, once strongly fortified; that is to say, 
a square platform fronting the plain and the sea : 
on this side of it is a precipice, and its three 
other sides were surrounded by a fosse. The 
area measures sixty-six paces by fifty-three; 
its major diameter being parallel to the sea shore. 
Upon the opposite side, within the fosse, are 
(3) " And its plenty failing, brings most certainly a famine upon 
their neighbours round about them." Wheler's Journey into Greece, 
p. 443, Lond. 1682. 
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