OF REMOTE AGES. 331 
To this I reply, that I am disposed to believe 
the walls of Mycene to have been the work of 
different periods, as we know to have been the 
ease at Cossa;* and Dodwell and Leake, the 
most accurate of travellers, confirm this opinion. 
It is also very possible that by some accident 
the polygonal style had, in one or two parts, 
merged in the horizontal, from the circumstance 
of the builders having had a number of rectangular 
blocks at hand, or because they wished the main 
entrance to be more regularly finished than other 
portions, since it is chiefly near the Gate of Lions 
that the horizontal style is observable. 
The perfectly regular architecture of the T’rea- 
sury of Atreus, remarkable as it undoubtedly is, 
is wholly irrelevant to the matter, as we have no 
grounds whatever for believing that it was coeval 
with the city walls; for Strabof{ tells us that 
Tyrins was founded by Pretus, whose reign 
Blair places about 1380 B.C.; and Pausanias§ 
tells us that tradition unanimously assigned the 
* Ent. Know. I. 64. 
¢ Dodwell. Fol. p. 6. 
Leake, II. 368. 
t Book viii. p. 540. Fol. ed: Clarendon Press, 1787. 
§ Pausanias, Book ii. c. 15. 
Strabo, viii. p. 547. 
