508 PELOPONNESUS. 
sacred images above them, has existed in every 
period of history; and it is yet retained in some 
countries. There is still a holy gate belonging 
to the Kremlin at Moscow; and the practice 
here alluded to is daily exemplified in the 
Russicm city, by all who enter or leave the 
Citadel through that gate. Every thing there- 
fore conspires to render the Ruins of Mycen<e, 
and especially of this entrance to the Acropolis, 
preeminently interesting ; whether we consider 
their venerable age, or the allusions made to 
them in such distant periods when they were 
visited by the Poets and Historians of Greece 
as the classical antiquities of their country; 
or the indisputable examples they afford of 
the architecture, sculpture, mythology, and 
customs of the heroic ages. The walls of 
ions and Miicence, like those of the Citadels of 
description u 
of the and Tininsy were of Cyclopean masonry, and 
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its gates denote the same gigantic style 01 
structure. Any person who has seen the sort 
of work exhibited by Slonehenge, and by many 
other Celtic remains of a similar nature, will be 
at no loss to figure to his imagination the 
uprights and the lintels of the Gates of Mycetue. 
We endeavoured to measure those of the prin- 
cipal entrance, over which the leonine images are 
placed. The length of the lintel equals fifteen 
