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south, of the Asopus; althouo'h the names of chap. 
places are so hkely to continue in any country, v ..y ,/ 
that it would be an unjustifiable omission if we 
were to neglect altogether the attention that is 
due to such corresponding circumstances. But 
the fact that more than all proved our vicinity to 
a spot once occupied by some antient city, was 
the prodigious number of antient medals which Medals. 
were brought to us by the people of this place, 
during the evening that we remained with them. 
Our interpreter had been seized with an attack 
of il/fl/arm fever; caught, perhaps, in the marshes 
of Marathon : and we had given to him a 
dose of ipecacuanha, as the usual preparative 
for administering the bark. Shivering with a 
.violent paroxysm, and under the influence of 
the nausea excited by the medicine he had 
taken, the poor fellow came into the hut (where 
we were seated upon an earth floor, hastily de- 
vouring a baked turkey which the Albanians 
had brought for our supper), beseeching us to 
deliver him from the crowd he had gathered 
around him, by asking for old coins; and he 
placed before us his cap half filled with bronze 
medals. We had scarcely time to examine a 
third of these, before men, women, and children, 
came. flocking in, each of whom added some- 
thing to the stock. A considerable part of them 
