596 . . MEGA R A. 
CHAP. Ionic and Doric capitals, of white limestone and 
x. 
of marble, lie scattered among the Ruins, and 
in the courts of some of the houses. The 
remains of the "long walls" which inclosed the 
land between Megara and the sea, and con- 
nected the ciVy with its port, are yet visible; and 
within this district, below the present town, 
some pieces of fine sculpture were discovered, 
and long since carried away. Here is also a 
Well, supposed to be that fountain mentioned by 
Pausanias 1 , as adorned by Theagenes, and sacred 
to the Sithnides; near to which there was a 
Temple, containing the works of Praxiteles. A 
modern superstition belonging to this Well* 
seems to agree with the circumstances of its 
antient history, and thereby to identify the 
and for their obverse, either a Tripod between two Dolphins, or the two 
Dolphins without the Tripod. The author has never seen a silver 
medal answering this description; but as a proof that these are medals of 
the Attic, and not of the Sicilian Megara t it should be mentioned, that 
they are found here upon the spot ; and the circumstance of his having 
found them in abundance upon the neighbouring Isthmus of Corinth 
may be also alleged as presumptive evidence of the fact. The oldest 
medals of Megara that he has seen, exhibit two Dolphins in front.; and 
for reverse merely a square indentation : and these were found by him 
at HtriDiiillid in the Isthmus. 
( 1 ) "Err i Ji i> *n -ri^.u xpr,tr,, KO.I rfini M*3tyWt Qia.yiir,(, x. <r. A. *** 
ifitif \t aiirit' faSumluAftnm tilt'ttm tu/u.fu, Patuaniff A (tica, c. 40. p. 96. 
ed. Kuhitii. 
(2) See Hobltouse's Travels, p. 482. Land. 1813. 
