582 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, interred their dead always beneath a heap of 
earth. 
As soon as we arrived at Hexamillia, the inha- 
bitants of both sexes, and of all ages, tempted 
by the sight which they had already gained of 
the new paras, flocked around us, bringing car- 
pets for us to sit upon in the open air ; and a 
i- very curious market was opened for the sale of 
a single commodity ; namely, the antient medals 
found at different times among the Ruins we 
had visited. The voun^r women wore several 
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silver medals mixed with base coin, as orna- 
ments, in a kind of cap upon their foreheads, 
and among their hair. These they were not very 
willing to dispose of; but the temptation offered 
by the shining paras was not to be resisted, and 
we bought almost all we saw. The bronze 
coins- were in great number : but we obtained 
many very curious medals in silver ; and among 
these, the most antient of the city of Corinth, in 
rude globular forms exhibiting the head of 
Pallas in front, within a square indented cavity ; 
and upon their obverse sides, those antique 
figures of Pegasus, in which the wings of the 
horse are inflected towards the mane. The 
medals with this die have been sometimes con- 
founded with those of Sicily; but we obtained 
