same prospect in the distance which we had had from the water. We left one servant at Lutrarchi to proceed straight to Calamachi, our place of embarkation for Athens, with the baggage, while the other accompanied us. The view of Corinth from a distance is fine, and gives the idea of an extensive city; but on entering, you find that it is like the Dead-sea Apple, specious without, but all rubbish within. Such a mass of ruin and desolation had never presented itself to my fancy before: but during the rest of our journey through the Morea I got accustomed to such scenes. Ruins -ancient and modern, and little elsepresented themselves in melancholy abundance and undistinguishable confusion. Climbing over masses of masonry and by ruined walls, we at length arrived in the main streets of Corinth: here there was some little appearance of life and trade, of which the suburbs gave no promise; houses were building, and shops were opened, in some of which we recognised the handyworks of Birmingham. We asked for the Khan, (for that Turkish appellation prevails in Greece,) and on entering it, our host informed us that he had porter,ay, genuine London porter!-this was a luxury we dreamed not of, and which our * * Mr. Burgess, a former traveller, (whose itinerary I much regret not having known before we began ours,) describes this man as a villainous Cephaloniote.' He does not state why he bestows this epithet upon him; but the following melancholy and mysterious occurrence is not calculated to improve the reputation of his hotel. The Purser of His Majesty's ship Portland, while the ship was at anchor at Calamachi, started with some brother officers for a walk to Corinth over the isthmus, in the month of August last, 1836. When ascending the AcroCorinthus, he left his own party, joining another to get on faster. In about an hour he descended, passing his former party, to whom he said, "he had seen enough," and returned to the town, where a Greek gentleman, of whom he inquired for the hotel, conducted him to within fifty yards of it, and there left him. This occurred at nine o'clock in the morning, and since that time nothing has been discovered which can give a clue to the fate of this unfortunate gentleman, though every exertion has been made both by his brother officers, and the authorities, and inhabitants of the town. walk made doubly agreeable. I know not whether it be fancy or nationality, but wherever I have been in hot climates, and able to procure a draught of London porter, I have found that it was the most refreshing thing I had ever tasted, with the greatest power of satisfying thirst.Thus refreshed, we proceeded sight seeing, having sent our servant to engage horses for the ride across the isthmus. A temple situated in the upper part of the town has given rise to much discussion as to the date of its erection, and the deity to which it was dedicated. It has seven remaining columns-monoliths, or of one piece; but, to my unpractised eye, rather stumpy, with the entablature still existing over five: they are of the Doric order, but not of the usual proportions, being, as far as we could ascertain, only twenty-six feet high, and full six in diameter. A short distance from this is an excavation in the precipice of the citadel, the |