242 DELPHI. 
CHAP, twice, in order to ascertain this point : and 
V - y .i. I admitting that our paces were about equal to 
the same number of yards, this will exceed the 
length of the antient metre which bore the 
name of the Olympic Stadium ; for that, making 
the eighth part of a Roman mile, was little more 
than two hundred and one yards'. 
From a part of the mountain to which the 
lower extremity of the Stadium is joined, we 
enjoyed a fine prospect of Salona, the antient 
Amphissa, situate upon the side of a hill; also 
of the Bay of Ciiissa, and a town called Galaocy 
towards the west; the Gulph of Corinth; and 
the mountains of Achaia. Hence we descended 
Monastery to the Monastery of Elias ; and found in the 
church belonging to it two architraves of Parian 
marble, of very great magnitude. Judging from 
the impossibility of conveying such masses to 
the spot by any means which the present inhabi- 
tants possess, and also by the immense founda- 
(1) The Olympic Stadium exactly equalled 201. ^■^^^ English yards. 
Mr. Vernon, measuring with great care the length of the Stadium at 
Athens, found it equal to 630 English feet. {See Wheler's Xmrn, into 
Greece, p. 375. Land. 1682.) Wheler say* its breadth equalled 26 or 27 
geometrical paces ; which, allowing 5 feet English for each geometrical 
pace, makes its breadth equal to 43^ or 45 yards. — From this it appears 
that the Delphic Stadium was of the same dimensions, or nearly so, as the 
Stadium Fanathcna'icum, at Athens. 
