580 PELOPONNESUS. 
were afterwards used instead of them 1 : they 
are particularly alluded to by Pausanias, as one 
of the characteristic features of the country: 
and that they were regarded with a superstitious 
veneration to a late age, appears from the 
circumstance of their being represented upon 
the Greek colonial medals, struck in honour of 
the Roman Emperors. Allusion was made in 
the last Chapter to a bronze medal found at 
Sicyon, whereon one of these trees is represented 
with the boy Melicertes upon a dolphin. 
The vicinity of these Ruins to the sea has 
very much facilitated the removal of many 
valuable antiquities, as materials for building ; 
the inhabitants of all the neighbouring shores 
having long been accustomed to resort hither, as 
to a quarry : but no excavations have hitherto 
taken place. Persons have been recently sent 
from England to carry on researches, by digging 
upon the site of the antient cities and temples 
of Greece, and it may therefore be hoped that 
this spot will not remain long neglected. There 
is no part of the country which more especially 
j) Archbishop Potter observes, that "the use of parsiey was 
afterwards left off, and the Pine-tree came a^ain into request ; which 
alteration Plutarch has accounted for in the filth book of his Si/mpo- 
siacks," (Quaest.3.) drcheologia, vol.1, c. 25. p. 457. Land. H5\. 
