PELOPONNESUS. 
Mount Oneius, is a Tumulus, perhaps that which 
was supposed to contain the body of MELI- 
r CERTES; in honour of whose burial the Isthmian 
chre of 
p<i/mofl. Games were instituted, above thirteen hundred 
years before the Christian aera. It stands on a 
very conspicuous eminence above the ivall, 
which here passes towards the south-south-east, 
quite to the port, after reaching the mount. 
There was within the sacred Peribolus, ac- 
cording to Pausanias\ a temple dedicated to 
Melicertes, under his posthumous name of 
Paltemon 9 ', and it contained statues of the boy 
and of his mother Leucothea, and of Neptune. 
The situation, therefore, of the Tomb, being 
almost contiguous with the Peribolus, is very 
remarkable; the whole of these magnificent 
structures, the Temples, the Theatre, the Sta- 
dium, and the ISTHMIA themselves, having 
originated in the honours paid to his sepulchre. 
Going from the Stadium towards this wall, we 
found fragments of Doric columns, whose shafts 
were near six feet in diameter; the edges of 
the canelure being sharp: these were of the 
(O Vid. Pausan. in CorintLiac. c. 2. p. 113. ed. Kuhnii. 
(2) 'E.%iii%titref St i; rov K.ofi>tiu> 'it-ffiat l<rt 5iX<pJVf (ut ^.tytreci) reu 
"TKibos, TIU.U.} KUI aXA.a< <rZ MEAIKEPTHI ^l^atrui fAtToiaftetefiirt ITAAAI- 
MONI, MI TilN 'ISeMIHN En' ATTm TON AFANA 
Pausan. Attica, c. 44. p. 108. ed. Kuhnii. 
