114 JOURNEY TO MOUNT HELICON. 
CHAP. If Neocorio be considered as now occupying the 
V ■■^. ^» site of Tp[i;spia, not a vestige remains of the 
antient city. Even the inscription which JVheler 
discovered upon the pedestal of a statue serving 
for the altar of a church was not found at 
Neocorio^ but in its neighbourhood ; and this we 
sought for in vain'. We observed, indeed, a few 
letters belonging to a Greek inscription, in a 
chapel above the village oi Neocorio; but these 
stones might all of them have been brought from 
Phrin, which is hard by, and which has evidently 
served as a quarry for the inhabitants of all this 
district, whenever building materials were re- 
quired. As the ruins at Phria immediately occur 
after those of Leuctra, to one journeying from 
Plat^a to Mount Helicox, it seems probable 
that they are those of Thespia. At Neocorio we 
failed in obtaining one essential requisite towards 
Medals. information upon this subject ; namely, Thespian 
medals: for by attention to local circumstances 
connected with the discovery of the antient coins 
of Grecian cities, many doubts may be removed 
concerning the situation of those cities. Scholars, 
visiting Greece, ought to be very careful in 
noticing the particular symbols which predomi- 
nate upon gems and medals, in particular places, 
(l) See fFlielei's Journey into Greece, p. 471. Land. 1682.. 
