558 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, large structure, built entirely of tiles, or thin 
T '-_ bricks. The people of the place remembered 
Oduum - this more perfect; and they described it as a 
building full of seats, ranged one above the 
other. Possibly, therefore, it may have been 
the Odeum ' ; unless, indeed, it were an Amphi- 
theatre, or a Theatre raised entirely from the 
ground, like the Coliseum at Rome; without 
being adapted to any natural slope. When we 
reached the house where we were to pass the 
night, the author was again attacked with a 
violent paroxysm of fever, and remained until 
the morning stretched upon the floor in great 
Climate of agony. The air of Corinth is so bad, that its 
Certntli. . . . 1 
inhabitants abandon the place during the sum- 
mer months. They are subject to the malaria 
fever, and pretend to remove it by all those 
superstitious practices which are common in 
every country where medical science is little 
known. We procured some terra-cottas of very 
indifferent workmanship, much inferior to those 
found near Argos ; also a few medals and gems. 
There were no Inscriptions ; nor was there to be 
seen a single fragment of antient sculpture. 
Such is now the condition of this celebrated 
(l) Vid. Pausan. Corinth, c. 3. p. 118. ed. Kuhnn. 
