136 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP. but we believe the Morea to be the utmost 
extent of their journey towards the south, since 
the period of their first migration 1 . 
The streets of Nauplia are as they probably 
existed in the time of Pausanias ; narrow, dark, 
and dirty. It is mentioned both by Xenophon* 
and by Euripides 3 ; but its antient name of 
Nauplia is now corrupted by the Italians into 
Napoli di Romania. The high and abrupt moun- 
tain upon which the Acropolis is situate, still 
retains the name of the hero Palamedes, son of 
Nauplius, in the appellation Palamedi. There is 
nothing remarkable in the town itself, excepting 
its situation; and this, like the site of many 
other Grecian cities, borrows from Nature some 
of her grandest features, each disposition of 
them being at the same time distinguished by 
something peculiar to itself. Athens, Argos, 
(1) Beaujour mentions them as forming part of the population of 
Salonica, under the name of TCHINGHENAIS. Tableau de la Comm. de 
la Grece, torn. I. p. 53. Paris, 1800. It is said they are also seen in 
Spain. 
(2) XennpJumt. Hellenic, lib. iv. Annot. Forst. iu Strabon. lib. ix. 
p. 535. ed. Oxon. 
(3) Euripides in Oreste, ver. 53. Ibid. 
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