A T H E N S. 
in which the city was visited by fVheler, by 
Chandler, or by Stuart. We afterwards exa- 
mined the remains of the original walls of the 
Acropolis ; and observed some appearances in the 
work which had not at that time, so far as our 
information extended, been noticed by preceding- 
travellers. Those walls exhibit three distinct 
periods of construction ; that is to say, the 
masonry of modern times in the repairs ; a style of 
building which can only be referred to the age of 
Cimon, or of Pericles; and the antient Pelasgic 
work, as mentioned by Lucian ' . This was pointed 
out to usbyLusieri; but the circumstance which 
had escaped his notice, which we afterwards 
ascertained, was, that a row of triglyphs, and 
intervening metopes, had been continued all 
round the upper part of the walls, immediately 
beneath the coping. Other travellers have since 
observed and mentioned the same fact 8 : hence 
it is evident, from the circumference of the 
Acropolis being thus characterized by symbols of 
sacred architecture, that the whole />en7>o/w.s was 
considered as one vast and solemn sanctuary. 
We have an instance of the same kind of sanc- 
tuary in modern times, and in our own age. 
(1) Bis /Iccnsalus, torn. VII. p. 60. Bipont. 1790. 
(2) Memorandum, &c. p. 23. Land. 1811. 
