Goodisson, William: A historical and topographical essay upon the islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaka and Zante: with remarks upon the character manners and customs of the Ionian Greeks : descriptions of the scenery and remains of antiquity discovered therein, and reflections upon the Cyclopian ruins, illustrated by maps and sketches (London: Thomas and George Underwood, 1822)

have taken place in the topography, since the con-
struction of the aqueduct; for, at present, there is
no source of water, nor appearance of any place that
could have furnished it, any where near its direc-
tion. The line followed up leads to a little olive
mount, which terminates by a precipitous descent
into the Govino bay, having no spring, and being
incapable of ever supplying one. The aqueduct
fed a fountain at a temple which was dedicated
to Apollo. An oblong, conical, stone pillar, the
lower half fluted and cylindrical, marked the spot,
with the following inscription in very old letters
upon the top: poos xiyqaios, (the Pythian fountain).
The pillar is about twelve feet high, and is to
be seen at Mr. Prossalendi’s museum*, together
with many other interesting pieces of architecture
and sculpture of the ancient Corcyra. Two
branches of the aqueduct above mentioned were
found leading to the base of the pillar; and near
it is a temple, marked out by the plinths of a
quadrangular colonade, which the French unco-
vered in digging the great wet ditch,
The population of Corcyra cannot be estimated
at less than 100,000 inhabitants, taking all these

* Most of the valuable coins and inscriptions are in the posses-
sion of Venetian families. Were they to be purchased by the
government, and added to the Corfu collection, the whole would
form a very interesting and patriotic monument. Mustoxidi has
copied many of the decrees of the Corcyra senate, from these
marbles, which are very curious.