PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, which rises to the north of Schcenus Port, we 
thought we observed the form of an antient 
Theatre, of which nothing but the Coilon exists ; 
neither a seat nor a stone remaining. We then 
rode directly towards the port and the moun- 
tain ; and, crossing an artificial causeway over 
a fosse, we arrived in the nxjdst of the Ruins. 
A speedy and general survey of the antiquities 
here soon decided their history ; for it was 
evident that we had at last discovered the real 
site of the Isthmian Town, together with the 
Ruins of the Tem/jle of Neptune, of the Stadium, 
and of the Theatre 1 . The earth was covered 
with fragments of various-coloured marble, grey 
granite, white limestone, broken pottery, dis- 
jointed shafts, capitals, and cornices. We 
observed part of the fluted shaft of a Doric 
column, which was five feet in diameter. A 
more particular examination was now neces- 
sary ; and we proceeded immediately to trace 
the different parts of this scene of desolation, 
and to measure them in detail. 
We began first to mark, with as much precision 
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(I) Vid. PausaH. in Corinth, cap. 1 42. pp. Ill, 112, 113, 114. 
U. Kvhnii. 
