ARGOS TO MYCE&E. 485 
On Tuesday morning, November the tenth, we CHAP. 
took leave of the hospitable Baratary, fraught v -v 
with a rich cargo of 'Grecian pottery; and set out 
for Mycence, the city of Agamemnon, anticipating 
a treat among those Ruins, for which Lusieri had 
already prepared us. We entered the spacious 
Plain of Argos, level as the still surface of view of 
a calm sea, and extending in one rich field, 
with the most fertile soil, from the mouths of 
the Inachus towards the north. Having again 
crossed the dry channel of the XAPAAPftAHZ 
IIOTAMOS, and looking back towards the 
Larissean Citadel, the lofty conical hill of the 
Acropolis appeared rising in the midst of this 
plain, as if purposely contrived to afford a bul- 
wark for dominion, and for the possession of 
this valuable land ; which, like a vast garden, 
is walled in by mountains*. Such was the 
the city from its enemies; the conduct of another drgive woman, who 
saved her son's life by slaying Pyrrhus ; &c. &c. "Hcec urbs plvrimis 
exemplis ad virtutem nos excitantibus abunduvit." Gerbel. ap. Gronov. 
&c. p. 52. Yet these rewards, of statues and trophies erected as 
public records of private virtues, according to a recent discovery in 
moral philosophy (Sec Quarterly Review, No. 33. p. 187. August\%\l) 
afford " an inference, that these virtues were of rare occurrence in 
the cities where such numerous testimonies were commemorated !!!" 
(3) See Vol. III. of the Octavo Edition of these Travels, Chap. IV. 
p. 97, on the allurements offered to the early settlers in Greece by the 
appearance of the country. 
