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o f the iflands. We made a ;fire,. and remained in it until
morning. It then proved cairns and we re-embarked.
W e coafted by the Scironian rocks, which -are exceedingly
high, rough, and dreadful. The way is. by the edge of perpendicular
precipices, narrow, and in many places carried over /
the breaks and fupported underneath apparently in <fb flight
a manner, that a fpeftator may reafonably fh'udder with horror }
at the idea o f -crofting. Wheler has mentioned it as the .
worft road, which he ever travelled. After much time con-
fumed in fcrambling up and down the precipicesjrkhe paffed
along the.fhoje, under the mountain, and' came, to.. an antient
edifice three or four yards high and eight fijuare, with ■
ieveral large planks of marble lying..'about it, fome carved in
bafio relievo. This, he fuppofes, was the temple of Apollo.
W e landed about noon in the .diftrift called antiently C ro -
tnyonia lying between the Scironian way and' the ifthmus of
Corinth. The. valley was'cultivated, and at fome, difknee-fiTcfth
the fea were olive-groves with a village named .Canetta. Nearer
the fhore were many fcattered ftones with a carved;fragment or
tw o } veftjges! of.Cromyon. This townlwasWffe hundred and
-fifty ftadia or eighteen miles and three quarters from-,Corinth.
I t once belonged to Megara. There Pityocamptgs; who -in-
fefted the entrance o f the Ifthmus,-was?educated ; and beyond,
but near, was the fcene o f the exploit o f Thefeus. : " The
pine, fays. .Paufanias, has grown until now by the fea-fide.”
There alfo was an altar o f Melicerte. T hey related that a
dolphin had tranfported his body to that fpotT that ftT'Was
found by Sifyphus, king of Corinth j and that he inferred it on
the Ifthmus.
n: Some-green famphice, which we gathered on the,S^ftanian
jocks, made part of our repaft at noon, after which we flept.in
fhe (hade. We embarked again,, and coafted a flat ihore-, and
in
region alfo was once a portion o f Ionia or Athca.
our water-cafks we made.a fire among the buflie , y
by it until the moon was fet.
■ -C H A P. X L Y .
S S m i m S j S S m
m M M &m
W E N N H M th e "ifthmus o f Corinth, Soon . t o
11 Sm W W rendejed a ftrong guard n e c e f l^ .
T hey treated us
w ith ordinary bread toafted on embers, i n y P he
provitions lor our boats, and . wo 5 I I
To E and t o
M W ! hundred and fifty. ftadia or fortjr three
-miles and three quarters from the Piraeus. | |
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