442 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, globe a taste originated for the kind of archi- 
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i - w -'_> tecture termed, by the Greeks, Cyclopean 1 , per- 
haps the answer may be, that it was cradled 
in the caves of India; for many of these, either 
partly natural, or wholly artificial, whether 
originally sepulchres, temples, or habitations, 
it matters not, are actually existing archetypes 
of a style of building yet recognised over all 
the western world, even to the borders of the 
Atlantic ocean: and the traveller who is accus- 
tomed to view these Cyclopean labours, however 
differing in their ages, beholds in them, as it 
were, a series of family resemblances, equally 
conspicuous in the caverns of Elephanta, the 
ruins of Persepolis, the sepulchres of Syria and 
ofjfsia Minor, the remains of the most antient 
cities in Greece and Italy, such as Tiryns and 
Crotona, and the more northern monuments of 
the Celts, as in the temples called Druidical; 
especially that of Stonehenge, in the south of 
History of England. The destruction of Tiryns is of such 
remote antiquity, that its walls existed, nearly 
as they do at present, in the earliest periods of 
Grecian history. JElian says its inhabitants fed 
(1) See a former Note, upon the application of this term among the 
Greek writers. 
