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requires this kind of examination. The con- CHAP. 
course to the ISTHMIA was of such a nature, 
and continued for so many ages, that if there 
be a place in all Greece likely to repay the labour 
and the expense necessary for such an under- 
taking, it is the spot where these splendid 
solemnities were held. Indeed this has been 
already proved, in the quantity of medals found 
continually by the peasants of Hexamillia among 
the Ruins here : and the curious Inscription 
which IVheler discovered lying upon the area of 
the temple* affords reasonable ground for be- 
lieving that many other documents, of the 
same nature, might be brought to light with 
very little difficulty. 
In returning from the site of these antiquities 
to Hexamillia, we observed several tombs by the 
side of the old road which led from Corinth to 
the town of Isthmus, exactly similar to the 
mounds we had seen in Kuban Tahtanj. This 
primeval mode of burial, originally introduced 
into Greece by the Titan-Celts, continued in use 
among the Corinthians; for Pausanias, speaking 
of the antient inhabitants, says, that they 
(2) See Wkeler's " Journey into Greece," Book vi. p. 438. 
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