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the tiiiriiilus of the king Alyattes^ father of Croe- 
SUS5 in Lydia, was six stadia, and that of Ninus 
was more than ten stadia in diameter=^. In the 
north of Europe the sepulchres of the Scandi- 
navian king Gormns, and the queen Daneboda, 
covered with mounds of earth, are three hun- 
dred metres broad, and more than thirty high. 
We meet with these tumuli in both hemispheres ; 
in Virginia, and in Canada, as well as in Peru, 
where numerous galleries, built with stone, and 
communicating with each other by shafts, fill 
up the interior of the huacas^ or artificial hills. 
Ill Asia these rustic monuments have been 
decorated with the refinement of eastern luxury, 
while their primitive forms have been preserved. 
The tombs of Pergamus are cones of earth, 
raised on a circular wall, which seems to have 
been encased with marblc'l". 
The teocallis, or Mexican pyramids, were at 
once temples and tombs. We have already 
observed, that the plain, on which were built the 
houses of the Sun and of the Moon at Teoti- 
huaca, is called the Path of the Dead ; but the 
essential and principal part of a teocalli was the 
chapel, the naos, at the top of the edifice. In 
* Herodotus, lib. 1, c. 93. Ctesias, apud Died. Sicul. 
lib. 2, c. 7. 
+ Cboisetil Gouffier, Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 
tom. 2, p. 27 to 31, 
