ISTHMUS OF CORINTH. 579 
same white limestone as the rest. But among all 
the remains here, perhaps the most remarkable, 
as corresponding with the indications left us by 
Pausanias of the spot, is the living family of 
those Pine-trees, sacred to Neptune, which 
he says grew in a right line, upon one side, in 
the approach to the Temple; the statues of 
victors in the Games being upon the other side 3 . 
Many of these, self sown, are seen on the 
outside of the wall, upon the slope of the land 
facing the port 4 . They may also be observed 
farther along the coast ; exactly corresponding 
with a remark made by the same author, who 
relates, that in the beginning of the Isthmus 
there were Pine-trees, to which the robber Sinis 
used to bind his captives *. Every thing con- 
spires to render their appearance here parti- 
cularly interesting: the victors in the Isthmia 
were originally crowned with garlands made 
of their leaves, although chaplets of parsley 
(3) 'EA.rfeT< S I; rfu fitv TO <i{a, nv<ri / 
Irritant n'xavsf, rtvrt S niTTflN AENAPA tfri wifvrivph* l*i mixu 
T* -XX if tHu auTttt HJT. Pausan. Corinth, c.l. p. 1 12. ed. Kuhnii. 
(4) This Pine is a variety of the Pinus sylveslris, commonly called 
Pinus maritima. ffhefar called these trees " Sea Pines with small 
cones." See Journey into Greece, p. 446. I^nd. 1682. 
(5) Vid. Pausan. ibid. p. 111. 
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