*34 T R A V E L S in G R E E C E .
| C H A P . LVII.
3 o Cleonee-— Arrive at Corinth— TheJituation—-The ports r—
’The city dejlroyed and re-peopled— De/cribedby Strabo— By
Paufanias— Taken by Alaric and the Turks — Its prefent Jlate
• • ~ A ruin.
W E paffed by the fountain at Nemea to regain the diredt
road from Argos to Corinth, re-aleending Tretus. We then
travelled over a mountainous traft among low. Ihrubs i the hillsN
with their tops walhed bare, lome Ihining, and with chanels
worn in their fides; the way croffed by very deep water-courfes
and lhallow ftreams. We came to a fmall plain, in which :|ire
fome veftiges of Cleonae j a city once overlpreading a knoll or
rifing rock, and handfomely walled about j deferving in the
Opinion o f Strabo the epithet well-built bellowed on it. by
Homer. It is mentioned by Paufanias as a ^place .not\ . large,-
with a temple of Minerva. It ,was eighty ftadia or ten cniles
from Corinth, and fifteen ftadia, or, near t.wo milp&.Ctenï hfeinea.
Two ways led to Argos,s which w a san . hundred and.twenijr
. ftadia or fifteen miles diftant; pne fit for • courierSaanjd. Ibofstit
i thé other that on Tretus, likewife narrow, being incLofed by
mountains, biit more proper for carriages*
W e edntinned our journey, "and, coming - in view: of the
' gulf o f Corinth, had on our left a plain- covered with: vines and
: olive-grovel T h e fertility of this region Was alluded to by the
witty oracle, which anfwered a perfon who enquired what he
Ihould do to become rich, that he needed only .tp . gét alk the
land between Corinth and Sicyon. We arrived on the Ilthmus,
and about evening entered the town. We wère holpitably received
at the houfe o f a, Greek named Gorgonda Notara, a
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