OF REMOTE AGES. 347 
architects employed, we are left wholly to conjec- 
ture. That their fortifications were the result of 
the combined labour of multitudes, there can be 
little doubt. Miebuhr* conceives them to have 
been executed by an enslaved people, acting under 
the direction of a severe and scientific priesthood. 
Herodotus} expressly states that this was the case 
with regard to the Pyramids, in which he is con- 
firmed by Goguet,{ Voltaire, and Larcher § 
There is, I believe, only one passage in any 
ancient author, which pretends to throw any light 
upon the instruments employed in the construc- 
tion of the early fortresses. Huripides|| tells us 
that the walls of Mycene were “built with Phe- 
nician rules, and stone-cutters’ chisels.” Of the 
employment of such instruments there is little 
doubt; but they are not sufficient for the effect 
produced, as will be obvious when we consider the 
weight of many of the stones, which enter into 
* Hist. of Rome.i. p. 87 and 119. First (English.) 
+ B. ii. 124. 
¢ Origine des Lois, &c. iii. p. 57. 
§ Note to Herod, as above. 
|| Hercules Furens. 946. 
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See also Miiller—Archeologie der Kunst, p. 28. 
