CORINTH. 551 
towards the magnificent remains of A TEMPLE 
now standing above the Bazar whence perhaps 
the Doric pillar already mentioned may have 
been removed, we found the ruins of antient 
buildings ; particularly of one partly hewn in 
the rock opposite to the said Temple. The out- 
side of this exhibits the marks of cramps for 
sustaining slabs of marble once used in covering 
the walls; a manner of building, perhaps, not 
of earlier date than the time of the Romans- 
Pliny mentions the time when this kind of orna- 
ment began to be introduced at Rome 3 . The 
Greeks sometimes decorated marble edifices 
after the same manner, but with plates of 
metal*. In this building were several cham- 
bers all hewn in the rock, and one of them has 
still an oblong window remaining. We then 
visited the Temple. It has been described by 
all travellers for near a century and a half. In 
Whelers time it had eleven Doric pillars stand- 
ing 5 : the same number remained when Chandler 
(3) " Primum Romas parietes crusta marmoris operuisse totius domus 
suse in Coelio inonte Cornelius Nepos tradidit Mamurram Formiis 
natum, equitem Romanum, prasfectum fabrorum C. Caesaris in Gallia." 
Plin. Hist. 2VW. lib. xxxvi. c. 6. torn. III. />. 477. L. Bat. 1635. 
(4) See the description given of the Gymnasium at Alexandria Troat, 
in the former Section. 
(5) See Ifheler's Journ. into Greece, p. 440. Land. 1682. 
