. Voyages dans la Morea : avec une carte et plans. entre deux tours carrées, dont qu'à gauche qu'aujourd'hui demeure. Être-yond cette tour, dans la même direction et justbelow thekeep le mur, une terrasse inférieure encore re-clut certains fondements de atemple, avec portionsof notfluted les arbres de colonnes, deux pieds deux pouces d'indiameter. Il y a un autre remainsof somefragments temple, avec des colonnes de mêmes dimensions, à l'extrémité de l'outerfortress thewestern près du front de theheight. L'ensemble de l'iscarpeted au sommet avec un fin gazon fermer,comme d'habitude sur l'Arcadian hills

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. Travels in the Morea : with a map and plans. between two square towers, ofwhich that to the left only now remains. Be-yond this tower, in the same direction and justbelow the eastern wall of thekeep, a lower terrace still re-tains some foundations of atemple, together with portionsof the shafts of columns notfluted, two feet two inches indiameter. There are remainsof another temple, with somefragments of columns of thesame dimensions, towards thewestern extremity of the outerfortress near the brow of theheight. The whole summit iscarpeted with a fine close turf, as usual on the Arcadian hills, where the atmo-sphere is generally sufficiently moist, even insummer, to maintain the verdure and to furnishan excellent pasture for sheep. I descend fromthe hill on the northern side through some fields ofwheat full grown, but quite green ; in the midstof which I find some large flat stones accuratelycut, which apparently formed part of a ceiling.A little farther on is a source of water. Fromthence, after winding round the eastern side of. 7^ ALIPHERA. [CHAP. XIII. the hill to regain the road to Fanari, I find thefoundations of one of the gates of the lowercity. This part of the fortification was flankedwith towers, of which there are the remains oftwo or three, together with considerable piecesof the intermediate walls on the western side, where the ground is very rocky and overgrownwith bushes. The masonry is in general of thesecond order, and has suffered much from timeand the exposed situation. Pausanias and Polybius accord in provingthat these are the ruins of Aliphera. The placeis so well described by Polybius, and the topo-graphy of the surrounding country so well il-lustrated by a comparison of the two authors, that I shall here subjoin extracts both from thedescription of the Greek traveller, and the nar-rative of the historian. The river Tuthoa, says Pausanias3, M flows into the Ladon at theboundary of the Thelpusii and Herseenses, whichthe Arcadians call Pediumb. The

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