CORINTH. Drawn by G. Cattermole, from a Sketch by W. Page. THE appearance of this portion of the city agrees with Dodwell's description of it—" houses placed wide apart, and the spaces between occupied with gardens ;" but the striking feature of the scene is the singularly grand and beautiful form of the Acrocorinthos. The following remarks are by a recent traveller in Greece: "In the course of the morning after our arrival at Corinth, we paid a visit to the Acropolis, or Acrocorinthos. We were three-quarters of an hour in riding up to the fort, where we were kindly received by the old governor. The walls of the fort are very extensive, constructed in many places over rocky precipices, and from eight to twelve feet high; with a banquette,-in some parts not eighteen inches wide, in others from two to three feet in width: thus, at night, in the event of alarm, it would be found impossible to communicate along such places, and at all times difficult to fire from them. The Greeks took the citadel from the Turks by a night attack. The walls were built by the Venetians upon the old Acropolis, enlarging it considerably. The view from the walls is very fine, looking towards Athens, and also across the gulf towards Parnassus. There are several tanks in the fort; and in one particularly, pointed out by the governor, is an inscription consisting of strange characters, which could not be deciphered: it may be Phoenician, from its proximity to Tyrius, Argos, and Mycenae, which towns are said to have been built by the Cyclops, who are most likely to have been Phoenicians, -at all events, are supposed to have come from or near the coast of Egypt. A fountain is said to have been constructed near the entrance into the citadel by Asopus, in front of which was the temple of Venus; but the general ruin of every thing but the walls of the fortress prevents almost all possibility of tracing any of the ancient buildings. There were formerly four chapels and four temples on the side of the road leading to the Acropolis; of these not a vestige is now to be seen. "In the afternoon, we rode to see the intended canal across the isthmus. About five miles from the town are the remains of the towers and lines for the defence of the isthmus, and a mile farther is the excavation made for the intended canal; it is about four hundred yards in length, commencing not far from the sea-shore. The labours appear to have been checked shortly after the work reached the hilly ground, which proved to be very rocky. It has only been carried on CORINTH. about one hundred feet among the rocks; but this distance is great, considering the deficiency of means in those days for such operations. The width of the canal appeared to be about eighty feet. It has been asserted that the canal could never have been serviceable, had the excavation been completed, on account of the difference of level in the two seas. From the place where the cut is stopped, the ground gradually rises towards the southern shore of the isthmus." Lord Byron, in the course of his journeys in Greece, crossed this isthmus five or six times; and the beautiful scenery which he has described in "The Dream" is supposed to have been suggested by the country which he traversed between the Saronic and the Corinthian Gulfs. In that poem he says, "He lay Reposing from the noon-tide sultriness, |