NAUPLIA TO TIRYNS. 439 
On Wednesday, November the ninth, we left CHAP. 
Nauplia, accompanied by the two sons of Mr. - 
Dalmar, to visit the remains of TIRYXS*, and 
thence proceed to Argos, Mycen&, and Nemea, 
in our way to Sicyon and Corinth. The lofty 
Citadel of Palamedi towered above us, on our 
right hand. We passed several gardens, and 
some pleasing kiosks, or summer-houses, situate 
near the town. The walls of Tiryns are not 
more than an English mile and a half distant 
from Nauplia; or half, an hour, according to the 
Turkish mode of reckoning*. The sight of them, 
in a moment, carried our reflections back to the 
plains below, near to the cities and public roads : therefore, by going 
to the summits of mountains, they, in fact, went farther from their 
Gods. This suggestion is, however, only made with reference to 
Polytheism, and to the nature of the offering: the worshippers of one 
God, as we learn from Herodotus, with regard to the Persians, who 
built no temples, chose the tops of the highest hills and mountains for 
their places of worship. (Her odot. Hist. K.i.) Strabo also observes 
of them, that they had neither images nor altars, but paid their 
adoration upon some high place. (Strabon. Geos. lib. xv.) Cyrus 
having had a dream, forewarning him of*his approaching death, 
sacrificed upon the summit of a mountain. (Vid. Xenophon. Kb. viii.) 
The inhabitants of Pontus "and Gtppadoda practised the same kind of 
worship, (dppian. lib. de Bella Mitkrid. p. 366.) 
(2) MST 2s A.axiSxifiota, *o)uf \frii "APrOS, eu It iturn NATHAIA \K, 
**) X/^u'ir. 'E pifoyita, 2* KAEnNAI, xtu MTKHNAI, suit TIPTNeA, 
Scylacis Caryandensis Periplus, p. 43. L. Sat. 1697. 
(3) See Ceffs Itinerary of Greece. Land. 1810. 
