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side, in the passes and heights of mountains in CHAP. 
Catholic countries. A person unacquainted with 
the nature of such an ascent, reading his cata- 
logue of the different objects as they occurred, 
might suppose they were so many temples, in- 
stead of niches, shrines, and votive receptacles. In 
the different contests which NEPTUXE is said 
to have had for the Grecian territories, one 
was also assigned to him for the Isthmus and 
jfaropotis of Corinth : and as the watery god 
disputed with Juno and with Minerva for the 
possession of the Argice and of the Athenian 
plains, so, in his struggle to maintain the sove- 
reignty of the Corinthian region, he is fabled 
to have retained possession of the Isthmus, when 
the lofty rock of the Citadel was adjudged to 
THE SUN ; a fable founded on no very dark 
tradition respecting the existence of this moun- 
tain above the waters of the sea, long before 
they had entirely abandoned the plain of the 
Isthmus. That the Peloponnesus had been once 
an island, was not only an opinion of the Antients 
concerning it, but a memorial of the fact is 
preserved in the name it always retained 3 of 
(3) IIEAOII02 NH202. (Vid. Strabon. Geog. lib. vii. p.U5. OJCOH. 
1807.) risA.T(3f fit* IK ns Ofi/y/atf 'frxyeftincu Xaar tig r *' aurmi 
K^niiTfai IIEAOIIONNHSON, . r.X. 
