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which are found in Greece, such as the so-called Bath of Helen
near Cenchreae on the Isthmus of Corinth1, and
^at on ^ Pen*nsula °f Methana in Argolis. Of
the latter of these he says,-—"The inhabitants
relate that it was when Antigonus son of Demetrius was King of
Macedon that the water first appeared; but it was not in the
first instance water that gushed forth, but a mass of fire burst
out of the earth, and after this ceased to burn the water rushed
out, which even down to my time continues to flow, hot and
excessively salt2." Another source in the west of Arcadia he
speaks of as having jets of flame in its neighbourhood8, Still
more interesting is his mention of the fountain of
Deine> which appeared in the sea on the Argolic
coast near Thyrea, and which may still be seen
about a thousand feet from the shore, rising in the midst of the
salt water with a column of such volume as to force itself above
the sea-level, and throw off concentric eddies all round*. The
water which supplied this fountain he believed to be derived
from the drainage of the Argon Pedion near Mantineia, which
passed beneath the intervening range of Mount Artemisium by
an underground channel; and at the present day it is thought to
proceed from that neighbourhood, though rather from the plain
of Tegea than from that of Mantineia,
To notice a few other natural features to which Pausanias
draws attention—he describes the grotto at Tae-
Caverns. ° .
narum, and remarks that there were no signs of
subterraneous descent in it, such as the legends of the poets
implied6: as to another point, however, his account is less
accurate than that of Strabo, for he identifies the temple of
Poseidon there with the grotto, whereas the earlier writer, as.
Leake has shewn, was right in regarding them as separate
places, though near to one another8. Of the
Corycian cave, in the upland region of Mount Par-
nassus above Delphi, he speaks with much greater
1 Pausan. 2, 2. 3. a 2. 34. j. 1 8. 29. i.
4 8. 7. i, 2; cp. Leake, Travels in the Morea, vol. a. p. 480; E. Curtius,
Pekponnesos, vol. 2, p. 373. » Pausan. 3. 25. 4, 5.
-6 Strabo, 8. 5. i; Leake, Travels in theMorea, voL I. pp. 296—300.