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)

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the north, are to be seen the remains of a theatre*
in good preservation, and near it is the hippodrome
covered with rich grass, where the vizier feeds his
cavalry horses. There are also the remains of a
second theatre, in the city, at the opposite side of
the hippodrome, directly facing the former. About
the centre of the aqueduct is a mass of square
building, surrounded by a narrow arched gallery.
In the centre of this ruin are the remains of a large
square apartment, with an arched niche in the
middle of the north and south walls. Possibly this
building was a court of justice.
The different character of these from that of the
ruins of many other cities near and around them,
is particularly striking. The great masses of red
brick, in which a single stone is hardly to be seen,
contrasts in an extraordinary manner with those we
have been already describing, which are composed
altogether of blocks of stone. Conviction of the
truth of the history of nearly twenty ages, rushes as
it were at once into the mind of the spectator, called
up by the evidence which now lies before him,
namely, the evidence of the fact, that a great
Roman city was founded here, in Greece, many
ages previous to his own existence, shewing the
preponderancy of that power in the heart of a nation,
which bears in itself internal evidence of its own
ancient greatness and splendour.

* A sketch of this theatre is given, plate III.
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