564 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, before our arrival, this antient bath was covered; 
* "v .. ' but wanting materials for building a mill, the 
inhabitants of a neighbouring village blasted the 
rocks; and these falling into the bath, have 
almost filled it. The water of it is very clear 
and brilliant; its taste slightly brackish, but the 
saline flavour scarcely perceptible. It comes 
out of the rock from two holes into the bath, and 
thence falls into the sea. Great part of the 
ruined buildings and walls about the bath were 
carried off when the mill was built. At noon 
we made the following estimate, by means of 
our thermometer, of the temperature of the at- 
mosphere ; of the water of this warm chalybeate 
spring; and also of the water of the sea. 
Atmosphere, in the shade .... 68 of Fahrenheit. 
Water of the bath, in the shade, 88. 
Water of the sea 75. 
cinerary All around this place are sepulchral caves hewn 
deTJlTthe * n * ne Toc ^- s near ^ ne sea > resembling the burial- 
Rocks> places in the neighbourhood of Jerusalem ; but 
the caves here are much smaller; and the ^re- 
cesses within them, instead of being intended 
as receptacles for bodies, were evidently niches 
for cinerary urns l ; a mode of sepulture relating 
(l) There is an engraved representation of these Caves in Mont/att- 
con's Antiquities, taken from the Travels of M. de Monceaux; but the 
niches are inaccurately delineated, and they are filled with imaginary 
