ISTHMUS OF CORINTH. 585 
visited the Bath of Helen: it is formed by a 
spring, which here boils up with force enough 
___ , Bath of 
to turn a mill, close to the sea. We found no 
difference of temperature, whether the thermo- 
meter were placed in the water of this spring, 
or in the sea, or exposed in the shade to the 
air of the atmosphere at mid-day. The three 
trials gave exactly the same result; 64 of 
Fahrenheit. The men we had hired did not 
return from the fair; so, after waiting for 
some time, we procured another boat, and went 
to a village, the name of which was pronounced 
Convangee 11 , where we passed the night. The 
next morning, at sun-rise, we embarked 
again. The wind proved contrary. We landed, 
and reached a miserable hamlet, consisting only 
of six houses, called Carneta or Canetto, upon 
the site of the antient C ROM vox. Its wretched 
inhabitants, a set of sickly-looking people, 
in the midst of very bad air, had never seen a 
glove, and expressed the utmost astonishment at 
seeing a person take one off his hand. Notwith- 
standing the insalubrity of the situation, and the 
unhealthy looks of the people, there was no 
(2) This, in all probability, is very remote from the manner in 
which this word oii^ht to be written. If it be a Greek name, the V 
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