552 PELOPONNESUS. 
visited the place 1 . We found only seven 
remaining upright : but the Jluted shaft before 
mentioned may originally have belonged to this 
building, the stone being alike in both ; that is 
to say, common limestone, not marble : and the 
dimensions are, perhaps, exactly the same in 
both instances, if each column could be mea- 
sured at its base. When IVheler was here, the 
pillars were more exposed towards their bases; 
and being there measured, he found them to 
equal eighteen feet in circumference, allowing 
a diameter of six feet for the lower part of the 
shaft of each pillar. Only five columns of the 
seven now support an entablature. We mea- 
sured the circumference of these, (as we con- 
ceived, about three feet from their bases,) and 
found it to equal seventeen feet two inches. 
Each column consists of one entire piece of 
stone ; but their height, instead of being equal 
to six diameters, the true proportion of the 
Doric shaft according to Pliny, does not amount 
to four. The destruction that has taken place, 
of four columns out of the eleven seen by 
tVheler and Chandler, had been accomplished by 
the Governor, who used them in building a 
house ; first blasting them into fragments with 
(1) Trav. in Greece, p. 239. Oif. 1776. 
