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REMARKS 



RELATING TO 



THE MILITARY ARCHITECTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE. 



[FROM THE LATE COL. SQUIRE'S PAPERS.] 



Greece abounding in mountains afforded an ample supply for 

 buildings ; and in different situations may be traced the progress of 

 the military architecture of the ancient inhabitants of the country 

 from a wall of huge irregular masses *, as they were taken from the 

 quarry, to that magnificent style of building, where the stones 

 always placed without cement in horizontal courses have a rectangular 

 form, and are so adapted to each other, as to present an uniform and 

 consolidated structure. ' . 



Among the beautiful vestiges of the ingenuity and perfection in 

 architecture of the Greeks, four different modes of building may be 

 observed. 1. The most ancient and simple was that in which immense 

 masses of rock detached from the mountains are piled upon each 

 other. Their shape being uneven, they could not be so united as to 

 form a compact body ; smaller stones therefore, as we learn from 

 Pausaniasf, were inserted between them in order that the building 



* In the Journal dcs S(javans, mention is made of a wall in Asia Minor of a most 

 remarkable extent ; it is described as enclosing a great part of the ancient Pamphylia. 

 " C'est un rai'e ouvrage d'antiquite dont il est surprenant que personnc n'ait encore parle, 

 et qui n'a ete observe que depuis peu par un illustre Francois nomnie M. de Boisgien, 

 dans un voyage qu'il a fait de Smyrne a Attalie. C'est la grande et longue niuraille, qui 

 enferme toute la Pamphilie, comme celle qui est a la Chine. De sorte que toute la 

 Pamphilie est bornee ou par la mer d'un cote, ou par cette longue suite de muraiiles de 

 I'autre. Le consul Fran9ois qui est a Attalie a assure M. de Boisgien avoir deja fait la 

 meme rcmarque." 



f Lib. ii. Ai5('a 8' Ivjjp/xoo-Tai voXXa., instead of ■na.Kui. See the French translation of 

 Strabo, lib. viii. 235. 



