66 PELOPONNESUS. 
?,^T P> wherein Ariadne had been buried ; thereby de- 
VIII. , 
monstrating its great antiquity 1 . Such vessels are 
also found in the Tumuli or Mounds of Tahtary, 
and in North America ; their situation, construc- 
tion, form, and contents, being so similar, that 
there can be no hesitation in ascribing their 
origin to the same people 2 . The supposed 
tomb of Theseus, opened by Cimon son of Miltiades, 
in the Isle of Scyros, from the description given 
of the weapons found within it, appears to 
have been one of these aboriginal sepulchres. 
De Stehlin, who was Secretary to the Imperial 
Academy at Petersburg, declared that there 
is not one instance of such a Tumulus being 
found to the northward of thejifty-eighth degree 
of north latitude 3 . This perhaps is doutful. A 
full account of those monuments ought to con- 
stitute an independent work ; and whenever the 
subject is properly treated, the observations it 
is calculated to introduce will illustrate a part 
of history hitherto entirely unknown. 
We employed the] whole of this day in 
(1) Kt^ftia> refit. Pans. Corinth, c. 23. p. 164. ed. Euhnii. 
(2) See Harris's Tour into the Territory North-west of \\&Alleghany 
Mountains, p. 175. Boston, 1805. 
(3) See Harris's Tour, p. 171. Boston, 1805. 
