ARGOLIS. 423 
Peleus slewPhocus, during a game of quoits 2 . It CHAP. 
has been a common notion everywhere, that 
antient heroes were men of gigantic stature. 
The fable, therefore, as related to Pausanias by 
the Mginetans, is of little moment ; but the fact 
of a stone so placed is sufficient to prove that 
such a substitute for the Stele was found upon 
a Dorian tumulus of very remote antiquity ; and 
the observation of the historian is in some 
measure confirmed by the existence of similar 
tombs in Argolis corresponding with his de- 
scription of the mound in JEgina ; the Dorians 
having possessed this island and the Argive 
territory nearly twelve centuries before the 
Christian aera : at that time the Peloponnesus was 
the principal seat of their power, and by them 
the city of Megara was then founded. Upon 
the /e/2-hand side of the road we also observed 
an Egyptian sepulchre, having a pyramidal 
shape ; and agreeing so remarkably, both as to 
form and situation, with a monument mentioned 
by Pausanias, that we believed ourselves to be 
actually viewing the identical tomb seen by 
him 3 . He supposes the traveller coming in a 
(2) Vid. Pausan. in Corinthiac. c. 29. pp. 179, 180. JAps. 16.9G. 
iripyMfc fNffcjrn tuMMpM*, *. r. X. Paus. Corinth, c. 25. p. 1G8. Lips, 
1696. 
