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cover) turning out of the road, and crossing ^W^'^ 
the Jtsopiis to the south-west, about a mile v. 
III. 
up the plain of Platana, is the well consi- of'thl'^'^ 
dered by the inhabitants as the '^ sacred well.'' ^y"^i^ 
Among several large antique stones, lying by 
the side of it, they pointed out to us a piece of 
rude and very antient sculpture, considered by 
them as now exhibiting the marks of horses' Jeet; 
but which is evidently nothing more than a part 
of an architectural ornament belonging to some 
temple once erected near to this ivell, probably 
that of Apollo, which was in ruins in the time of 
Pausanias\ and with whose situation, from the 
remarkable circumstance of the ivell itself, and 
its reputed sanctity even at the present time, it 
seems so accurately to correspond. The form 
of the grooving in the stone exhibits an 
appearance, which has given rise to the absurd 
notion of an impression made by the feet of 
(l) Vid. Baot. c. 2. p. 714. ed. Kuhnii, 
