24 ON SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS. 
It is not my intention to enter here into a 
description of the massive monuments which 
bear the Pelasgic or Cyclopian name,—but it 
may be important to remark, that they consist 
of three distinct styles, which I should conceive 
to be referable to widely different periods of 
time.—The first, which appears to be the most 
ancient, consists of walls formed of immense 
blocks of stone, roughly, if at all, hewn, gener- 
ally of a square or oblong shape, put together 
with little care, and having the interstices filled 
up with stones of smaller dimensions. To this 
class may be referred the outer walls of Tiryns, 
the Pelasgie wall round the citadel of Athens, 
and a large part of the acropolis of Mycene.— 
The second style includes those buildings which 
are constructed of enormous blocks of every 
imaginable shape, but most commonly penta- 
gons, and irregular rhomboids, and fitted to- 
gether with the most scrupulous and beautiful 
exactitude. The galleries of Tiryns, some frag- 
ments which surround the hill of Argos, and 
others near Avpino, in the Southern Apenines, 
are the only specimens of this class I have seen. 
—The third and most modern division of Cylo- 
pian architecture, is of a far more finished, and 
somewhat less massive character;—and the 
Tomb of Agamemnon at Mycene, which forms 
