N A U P L I A. 437 
Nauplia, Corinth, and many more, had each their CHAP. 
lofty citadel, with its dependent burgh, and fer- t _ T - , .. 
tile plain: in this they resembled each other; f cha , c ~ 
* * ICrlbUC 
but in certain characteristics they all differ. F "* tur ? 
of Grectan 
ATHENS appears as a forsaken habitation of cities - 
holiness: for a moment, unmindful of the de- 
grading character of its Divinities, the spectator 
views with a degree of awe its elevated shrines, 
surrounded on every side by a mountain barrier, 
inclosing the whole district as within one conse- 
crated Peribolus. ARGOS, with less of a priestly 
character, but equal in dignity, sits enthroned 
as the mistress of the seas: facing the sun's 
most powerful beams, she spreads her flowery 
terraces, on either side, before the lucid bosom 
of the waters in regal majesty. NAUPLIA, 
stretching out upon a narrow tongue of land, and 
commanded by impregnable heights, rich in the 
possession of her port, " the most secure and 
best defended in the Morea*," but depending 
always upon Argos for supplies, was fitted, by 
every circumstance of natural form, to become 
a mercantile city, and the mart of Grecian com- 
merce. CORINTH, the Gibraltar of the Pelopon- 
nesus, by its very nature a fortress, is marked 
by every facility that may conduce to military 
(4) Chandler's. Travels in Greece, p. 227- Off. 1T7G. 
