328 MURAL ARCHITECTURE 
The traveller in Greece and Italy, especially 
if he deviates from the regular high-road of tour- 
ists, constantly meets with fragments of massive 
walls, bearing upon them marks of very high anti- . 
quity, and distinguished from all other specimens 
of architecture, by the immense size of their ma- 
terials, the peculiarity of their construction, and 
the entire absence of cement. 
On. closer examination, and more careful com- 
parison, these ancient ruins may be generally 
distinguished as belonging to three distinct styles. 
I.—The first, (of which Lycosura, Tyrins, 
and part of Mycene, in the Morea, afford the only 
examples extant,) is that in which the walls are 
composed of immense amorphous blocks of unhewn 
stone, laid one upon another, and having the inter- 
stices filled up with stones of a smaller size.— 
This is generally termed the Cyclopian style.* 
II.—The second style, which is much more 
elaborate, more peculiar, and more widely spread, 
comprises those walls which are formed of huge 
polygonal stones, or rather pieces of rock, (gene- 
* See Drawing I. 
