378 THE PIRAEUS. 
There are many Ruins about the three ports, 
Munychia, Phalerum, and the Piraeus; and we 
may look to future excavations in their vicinity 
as likely to bring to light many valuable anti- 
Further quities. The remains of the LOXG WALLS which 
of the joined the Pir&eus to Athens, (making of it a 
burgh similar to what Leith is with respect to 
Edinburgh 1 ?) although very indistinct, yet may 
be traced sufficiently to ascertain the space they 
formerly included. These walls appear to have 
had different names (distinguishing them from 
the town walls of Piraeus) among the Greeks 
and Romans. By the former they were termed 
either Ma*a Tti%,n> the Long walk, or Max^a 
r*gX>7, literally answering to a nick-name be- 
stowed upon one of our kings of England, wha 
was called Long-shanks. We find them alluded 
to, under this appellation, byDiodorus Siculus; as 
a term whereby they are distinguished from the 
Pir&ean walls' 1 . The Romans adopted a different 
appellation: by them the "long-shanks" were 
(f) Edinburgh exhibits a very correct model of a Grecian city: and 
with its Acropolis^ Town, and Harlour, it bears some resemblance to 
Athens and the Piraeus. 
(2) Tt/i<Wa T <u', uirrt TA MAKPA 2KEAH, x< TA TEIXH TOT 
fIEIPAIEn.2, *^Xi7. Diod.Sic. lib. xiii. ap. Meurt. Pir. Vid.Growow. 
Tlusaur.Gr. torn. V. p. 1932. L.Lai. 1699. 
