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ment of the sons of JEyptus *. The way up CHAP. 
a mountain is little liable to alteration; and 
probably the track we pursued was nearly, if 
not entirely, the same that was trodden by 
him. The fortress itself is evidently a modern 
building; its walls contain fragments of anti- 
quities, used as materials in building them 3 ; but 
on the sides and lower part of it we observed 
the remains of Cyclopean architecture, as antient 
as the Citadel of Tiryns, and built in the same 
style. This structure is mentioned by Pau- 
sanias, in his seventh book ; where he states that 
the inhabitants of Mycence were unable to de- 
molish the wall of the Argives, built, like that 
of Tiryns, by the Cyclops 4 . The Cyclopean walk 
and towers of Argos are also noticed by Euripides, 
Polybius, and Seneca. Hence we had a glorious 
view of almost all Argolis, and great part of 
the Arcadian territory, even to the mountains of 
Laconia, visible from this eminence 5 . Placed 
(2) 'Ej St rrif xjo*oX/ lau/rii srnt It a.^ivn^a TJJJ oSou ruv 
trtuSat no.} *a.vvn fiirtf-t. Pausan. in Corinth, c. 24. p. 165. ed. fuftnii. 
(3) Sir W. Cell found here a very antient Inscription ; and says that 
filiation intimates the existence of a very curious one at Argos. Set 
Itiit . of Greece, p.6B. Lond. 1810. 
(4) Pausan. in Corinth, lib.vii. c. 25. p. 589. ed. Kuhnii. 
(5) See this prospect as engraved from a most accurate drawing 
made upon the spot by Sir W. Cell. Itin. of Greece, Plate xix. p. 68. 
Land. 1810. 
