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variety, were so great, that we demanded of the C HAP. 
A. 
peasants where they had found them in such v * 
abundance ? One of the inhabitants, who spoke 
the Modern Greek, said they all came from a 
Pal<eo- Castro to which they often drove their 
flocks ; described by them as being near to a 
small port at the extremity of the Isthmus upon p rt 
the side of the Gulph of Engia, towards Megara. & 
This could be no other than the Port Schoenus; 
and the mere mention of this important appel- 
lation, Palceo-Castro, filled us with the most 
sanguine expectations that we should here find, 
what we had sought with so much earnestness, 
the site of the Isthmian solemnities. Such a 
variety of coins belonging to different and to 
distant States of Greece, all collected upoix one 
spot, could only be accounted for by a refe- 
rence to the concourse so often assembled, in 
consequence of the Sacred Games, from all parts 
of Hellas and of Peloponnesus. We therefore 
took one of the peasants as our guide to the 
P al&o- Castro ; and leaving the others to collect 
medals from the different cottages, promised to 
return in the evening, and to purchase all they 
might be able to procure. Antient stone quar- 
ries are numerous in the hills above Hexamillia. 
Beyond this village, towards Mount Oneius? 
