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in their forms, and so remarkably situate, that chap. 
they cannot escape notice. We endeavoured to v y — 
learn of the peasants if they had any tradition 
concerning them. All the information they gave 
us was, that they were constructed beyond all 
memory, and were believed to contain bodies of 
men slain in battle. A notion less reasonable, 
although common to countries widely distant 
from each other, is, that such mounds are 
the tombs of giants. Thus, on the Hills near 
Cambridge, two are shewn as the Tombs of 
Gog and Magog, whence the name given to 
the eminence where they are situate. The 
Tomb of Tityus, the most antient of all those 
mentioned in the History of Greece, is described 
by Homer' 1 , as a mound of earth raised over the 
spot on which that giant fell, warring against 
the Gods. 
Eighty-three versts from Tver we came to a Kim. 
small settlement between two hills : this is 
marked in the Russian Map as a town, and 
called Klin. It hardly merits such distinction. 
On the right, as we left it, appeared one of 
those houses constructed for the accommodation 
of the Empress Catherine, on her journey to 
the Crimea. 
(2) Pausanias saw it in Phocis , at the base of Parnassus , twenty 
stadia from Chcrronea. 
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