499 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, it might be supposed a sinde hour had 
VIlI 
' not elapsed since he was himself upon the 
spot. 
The first thing that we noticed, as we drew 
nisfh to the grate of the city, was an antient 
dinary Se- 
pulchre; Tumulus of immense size, upon our ngkf, 
precisely similar, in its form and covering, to 
those conical sepulchres so frequently the 
subject of allusion in these Travels; whether 
called barroivs, cairns, 'mounds, heaps, or by 
whatever other name, (as for example, Ttpe 
by the Turks, and ra<pog and %upu, by the 
Greeks,} they are now pretty well understood 
to have all of them reference to a people of 
the most remote antiquity (possibly the Celtte), 
and to have been raised for sepulchral purposes. 
Particular stress is now laid upon this circum- 
stance, for reasons that will presently appear. 
This Tumulus has evidently been opened since 
it was first constructed, and thereby its interior 
has been disclosed; but at what time this 
happened is quite uncertain; probably in a 
very remote age, from the appearance it now 
exhibits. The entrance is no longer concealed : 
like that of a Tomb described in the First Part 
of these Travels, as found upon the Cimmerian 
