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Gell, William
The itinerary of Greece: With a commentary on Pausanias and Strabo and an account of the monuments of antiquity at present existing in that country — London, 1810

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AGIANI TO CORINTH. 141

right, and soon after cross two streams with mills, and enter a small
circular cultivated plain. At two hours 30 minutes, ascend among
olives, to a long narrow plain bounded by low hills. At three hours
12 minutes turn to the right quitting the plain. At three hours 30
minutes pass Angelo Kastro, a large village with a ruined fort upon
a hill. Descend; at four hours pass a well in a long narrow plain
well cultivated. In the centre of this plain see a second well.
At four hours 25 minutes the plain ends. Ascend, till at five hours
25 minute, when arrive at the village of Agiani.

AGIANI TO CORINTH.

The road for one hour from Agiani is exceedingly rugged and
unsafe. At two hours 20 minutes cross the dry bed of a torrent, be-
tween rocky hills. A fine view of the Acrocorinthus is caught in this
route. At three hours 30 minutes arrive at the foot of the Acroco-
rinthus, where are some ancient blocks of stone. Cross a stream,
and leaving Cenchrea far on the right, arrive at Corinth in four hours
and 10 minutes. The time employed in the whole route from Epi-
daurus to Corinth is 11 hours and five minutes. The account is
taken from the journal of Mr. Dodwell, who noted the facts on the
spot.

In the whole of this journey, there is very little worthy of remark,
in point of antiquities. There were the towns or villages of Rhetum,
 
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