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remote from that place, when he perceived a ruin, two. hours
from Vervizza, which prevented his going any farther.
T he ruin called the Columns Hands on an eminence flickered
by loftj^ mountains.: ^ h^ , temple, it |s fuppgfed, vyas thaTof
Apollo-Epicurius,. npar Phigalia, a, city pf Arcadia.., It was o f
the Doric order, and had fix columns in front. The number-,
whjph ^ ranged round/ the cell, was thirty,sight. Two at-the
apgjps ar^"%l)gp.f thet r^^are eptfler ip goo4»prel£Eyatlon, apd
fiippprt th^r rycJ^yt^fyps. ^ ith in ( ithem lies a confufqjheap,
The^ftooe, inclines., to gray with reddifh veins.? T o it| beauty
j^ a d<|fi<jl 'gpgforecifipn jf^ e x e c u fo n In the ^nrjcmanfbip n
T^e§|^in^in|4iad:theirjeifepti. flriking equally the'liiina and the
ey^s o f }the| beflqlder,, f,,
■ PjApsjPjNtAj de^iJ^S:Phigalia as furrounded by^ mmiri ta in*,
c ^ s ^ i c ^ g n ^ n |p je d Cotyflup3.j,, w as d ifla n i^ a lip u t fo rty fladiaT
Tfi^'fWPJiliP^'Apo.lld flood o^jdii^ a^a,plage
arcniteJt j.1, the tfspT
h in^Ldrwqfle^ Tnp PeKmonne-3
fianshad no temple,,one at Tegea excepted, fo much celebrated
for the beauty of the materials and the harmony oi me propor-
ti99s bs fS&S WH>4vifrf Epicurius. from theaid he was
fpppofe^^ ƒ flju a,peflflence. The flatue, which was
iJqpjet high, had been removed, and ?was
t^epnp . ^e^agojaijOr market-place of Megalopolis. .This city,;
WS[ pal leci J^rgpti was . fifty fla<|ia/or fix mues apd 'a quartef|
in#pfl^itfi3;. T h e river. Heliflbn ran through it into tiie'Alpfleus.
C-H A P.
T R A V E L S tu t G R E E C E . *9 7
C H A P . LX X V IIL
Our Jituation — ■ We return to Chiarenza Arrive at Zante —
Perform quarantine— Remove from the Lazaretto.
W E had experienced fince our leaving Athens frequent and
alarming indifpofition. We had fuffered from fruits, not eafily
eaten with moderation; from fatigue ; from the violent heat of
the fan by day, and from damps and the torments inflidted by
a variety o f vermin at night; befides thé badnefs o f the air,
which was now almoft peftilential on this fide o f the Morea.
My companions complained. Our fervants were i l l ; and the
captain, -whofe brown complexion was changed to fallow, had
grown mutinous, and declared he would go away with his vefiel,
as be mu ft perform a long quarantine at Zante, i f his return
were delayed; the annual unbealthinels o f the Morea toward
the end o f harveft requiring increafe of caution, and the magif-
trates of thé ifland reflraining the intercourfe with the continent
at that feafon.
In the afternoon we mounted for Pyrgo* We paffed the
night in the garden, in which We had flopped before; thé
gnats again molefting us exceedingly. Irritated on finding our
faces, hands, and legs carefully covered, thé terrible infeft
buzzed about us with a droning noife, which founded in the
ear fcarcély lefs loud than a trumpet. The following day we
dined under a fpreading tree near a.clear fpring among thickets;
probably that called antiently Piera, in the way through the
plain to Elis. There the Prsefeéts of Olympia and the matrons
chofen to prefide at the games in honour o f Juno killed a pig
and were purified with holy water, before they entered on their
offices. We refted in the garden at Gaftouni, and fet out early
in the morning for Chiarenza; both sny companions, with
Q^q fom«