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discovered by future travellers who have liberty CHAP. 
to inspect the materials used in constructing _ y .. . ; 
the foundations and walls of the citadel. All 
that we observed, in going up, were the remains 
of an antient paved way near the gate of the 
fortress, and the capital of an Ionic pillar lying 
near the same place. We reached this gate p rospect 
just before sun-set; and had, as it is always 
usual from the tops of any of the Grecian moun- the . Ac ' 
J connthus. 
tains, a more glorious prospect than can be 
seen in any other part of Europe. Wheler calls 
it " the most agreeable prospect this world can 
give *." As from the Parthenon at Athens we had 
seen the Citadel of Corinth, so now we had a 
commanding view, across the Sinus Saronicus of 
Salamis, and of the Athenian Acropolis. Looking 
down upon the Isthmus, the shadow of the 
Acrocorinthus, of a conical shape, extended ex- 
actly half across its length, the point of the cone 
being central between the two seas. Towards 
the north we saw Parnassus covered with snow, 
and Helicon, and Cith&ron. Nearer to the eye 
appeared the mountain Gerania, between Megara 
and Corinth. But the prospect which we sur- 
veyed was by no means so extensive as that 
(J) See " Journey into Greece," Book vi. p.422. Land. 1685. 
