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THE PELOPONNESUS 27I
of the Doric style in Greece. We have no means of
telling for how many centuries the sturdy columns
have stood on the plain. They were cut in one
piece from the limestone rocks not far away and
covered with a yellowish stucco. Even this covering
gives us a hint of restoration ; the thick Roman
stucco is easily distinguished from the thin layer used
by the Greeks.
The traveller should go to Corinth with a copy of
I ausanias in one pocket and the New Testament in
the other. In these literary memorials he will find
more to remind him of the brilliant, luxurious city
than anything he sees on the plains. The description
°f Pausanias is minute, and encourages us to hope for
good results from the excavations undertaken at
Corinth by the American school.
The same friend who before my departure for
Greece had said, " Do not spend any time at Corfu,"
had likewise said, " Do not trouble yourself to go up
Aero-Corinth." I should invert his advice and would
say, " Do not fail to climb Aero-Corinth. If you do,
you will miss one of the grandest views in all Greece."
Dispensing with a mule, I climbed the mountain and
succeeded in getting within the eye of my camera an
exact picture of the isthmus with the water lapping it
°n each side. The Corinthian Gulf, like a great
inland lake, is spread out on one side, with the
mountains of Bceotia and Phocis rising in a wall be-
hind it, and, most imposing among them, snow-peaked
"arnassus. To the east /Egina and Salamis are sleep-
lng in the calm waters of the Saronic Gulf with their
island satellites round them; to the south the moun-
tains of Argolis ; and to the west those of Arcadia frame
of the Doric style in Greece. We have no means of
telling for how many centuries the sturdy columns
have stood on the plain. They were cut in one
piece from the limestone rocks not far away and
covered with a yellowish stucco. Even this covering
gives us a hint of restoration ; the thick Roman
stucco is easily distinguished from the thin layer used
by the Greeks.
The traveller should go to Corinth with a copy of
I ausanias in one pocket and the New Testament in
the other. In these literary memorials he will find
more to remind him of the brilliant, luxurious city
than anything he sees on the plains. The description
°f Pausanias is minute, and encourages us to hope for
good results from the excavations undertaken at
Corinth by the American school.
The same friend who before my departure for
Greece had said, " Do not spend any time at Corfu,"
had likewise said, " Do not trouble yourself to go up
Aero-Corinth." I should invert his advice and would
say, " Do not fail to climb Aero-Corinth. If you do,
you will miss one of the grandest views in all Greece."
Dispensing with a mule, I climbed the mountain and
succeeded in getting within the eye of my camera an
exact picture of the isthmus with the water lapping it
°n each side. The Corinthian Gulf, like a great
inland lake, is spread out on one side, with the
mountains of Bceotia and Phocis rising in a wall be-
hind it, and, most imposing among them, snow-peaked
"arnassus. To the east /Egina and Salamis are sleep-
lng in the calm waters of the Saronic Gulf with their
island satellites round them; to the south the moun-
tains of Argolis ; and to the west those of Arcadia frame