422 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, investigation. The antiquities that occurred in 
* ..' / our route were principally of a sepulchral 
vndjstgyp- nature, near to the antient road leading from 
qukte. nU ~ Nauplia towards Lessa and Epidaurus ; but so 
peculiarly characterized, as to form and struc- 
ture, that it is evident they were the works 
of the earliest colonies in Peloponnesus, and 
probably of Dorian origin. One of these monu- 
ments is decidedly mentioned by Pausanias, as 
we shall presently shew; the only author to 
whom we can refer for information concerning 
this part of the PELOPONNESUS. Sirabo makes 
but few remarks upon the Argive territory ; and 
even these are delivered from the observations 
of Artemidorus and Apollodorus ; not having 
himself visited the spot 1 . We passed some 
tombs that were remarkable in having large rude 
stones, of a square form, placed upon their tops ; 
a custom alluded to by Pausanias in the descrip- 
tion he has given of the tumulus raised by Telamon 
upon the shore of Mgina, near to the JEaceum. 
The (<y^a) heap had upon the top of it 
(\l6og rgotxvi) <( a rugged stone," once used, 
according to a tradition in the second century, 
by Peleus and Telamon, as a discus, with which 
(1} 'ET/Jatija;, u; '. \gTtfiioagos Qnfit- 'ATsXXo&wja; si, x. r. X. Slrcib. 
Geog. lib. viii. pp. 534, 535. edit. (?j:on. 1807. 
