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CHAP. 
VIII. 
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Road to 
Argos. 
PELOPONNESUS. 
We crossed the INACHUS at its junction 
with the Charadrus, in our road from Tiryns 
to ARGOS. The distance is about six English 
miles. Nothing can exceed the magnificence 
of the scenery all around the Gulph; and 
it cannot be necessary to enumerate the inter- 
esting recollections that serve to render it still 
more impressive. In this ride from Tiryns to 
Argos, the prospect is particularly striking: 
the antient Capital, even in its state of wretch- 
edness, with scarcely a wreck remaining, has 
still an appearance which is, in every sense of 
the term, imposing. It leads the traveller to 
believe that he shall find, upon his arrival, the 
most ample traces of its pristine greatness. 
This is principally owing to a cause already 
assigned; to the prodigious contribution made 
by the geological features of the country, in the 
plans of Grecian cities; where Nature has 
herself^ supplied, upon a most stupendous 
scale, what Art would otherwise more humbly 
have contrived. In various parts of Greece, 
where the labours of man have been swept 
away, where time, barbarians, nay, even 
earthquakes, and every other moral and phy- 
sical revolution, have done their work, an 
eternal city seems still to survive; because the 
Acropolis, the Stadium, the Theatre, the Sepul- 
