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GEOGRAPHICAL VIEW OF GREECE. 7together witli the race-ground, or hippoclromus. The wholeforest was filled with monuments and statues, erected inhonour of gods, heroes, and conquerors. Pausanias mentions more than two hundred and thirty statues; of Jupiter1alone he describes twenty-three, and these were, for the mostpart, works of the first artists; for how could inferiority gainadmittance, where even mediocrity became despicable?Pliny estimates the whole number of these statues in histime, at three thousand. 2 To this must be added the treasuries (Syvavpot),which the piety or the vanity of somany3cities, enumerated by Pausanias, had established by theirvotive presents. It was with a just pride, that the Grecian,departed from Olympia. He could say to himself with truth,that he had seen the noblest objects on earth, and that thesewere not the works of foreigners, nor the pillage of foreignlands, but at once the creation and the property of his ownnation.The territory of Elis was indebted for its repose to theprotection of the gods Achaia, the country which bounded;it on the north, to the wisdom of men. Having once beeninhabited by lonians, this maritime country had borne thename of Ionia; which was afterwards applied exclusively tothe neighbouring sea on the west side of Greece. But inthe confusion produced by the general emigration of theDorians, it 4itsexchanged ancient inhabitants for Ach^ans.Achaia, watered by a multitude of mountain streams, whichdescended from the high ridges of Arcadia, belonged, withrespect to its extent, fruitfulness, and population, to themiddling countries of Greece. The character of its inhabitants was analogous. They never aspired after aggrandizement, or influence abroad. They were not made illustriousare still much in the dark respecting the situation, of ancient Olympia. WhatChandler says is unimportantThe only modern traveller, who has madeaccurate investigations, is M. Pauvcl. But I am acquainted with his communication to the National InHtitute, Precis de ses wyar/es dans le continent de laOrvcc, flfe1 ., only from the short notice contained in Millin, Magazin Encyclop.1802, T. II. He found, it is there said, not only the remains of the templeof Jupiter, hut also of the hippodromus.1PausauiaB, v. p. 434, etc. has enumerated and described that number.Among them there was a colossus of bronze, 27 feet high.8Pliny, Hist. Nat xxxiv, 17. There were as many at Athens, Delphi, andRhodes.8Pans. vi. p. 497, etc.4As early as 1100 before Christ.