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visit a ruin near vlithias.
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WALL OP RUIN NEAR VLITH1AS.
CHAPTER XXX.
RUIN OF AN ANCIENT TOWER OR SEPULCHRE NEAR VLITHIAS.
ARRIVAL AT THE HAMLET OF VLITHIAS. DEPOPULATION CAUSED
BY THE LATE WAR. HEAR OF ANOTHER ANCIENT SITE.
April 30, continued.
A guide accompanies us from the village of Spaniako
to the ruins found, about two miles off, near Vlithias.
A natural rocky elevation is here surmounted by very
ancient walling, which affords a beautiful specimen1 of
what is commonly termed the second cyclopian style,
and would seem to have been a sepulchre. The monu-
ment being round, and of a very solid and beautiful
style of construction, reminds me of Caecilia MetehVs
tomb in the neighbourhood of Rome: but they differ
greatly in their age; for this monument was undoubt-
edly in existence long before the earliest beginnings of
1 The portion engraved is lfi feet 3 inches long, and about 6 feet
high.
visit a ruin near vlithias.
[chap.
WALL OP RUIN NEAR VLITH1AS.
CHAPTER XXX.
RUIN OF AN ANCIENT TOWER OR SEPULCHRE NEAR VLITHIAS.
ARRIVAL AT THE HAMLET OF VLITHIAS. DEPOPULATION CAUSED
BY THE LATE WAR. HEAR OF ANOTHER ANCIENT SITE.
April 30, continued.
A guide accompanies us from the village of Spaniako
to the ruins found, about two miles off, near Vlithias.
A natural rocky elevation is here surmounted by very
ancient walling, which affords a beautiful specimen1 of
what is commonly termed the second cyclopian style,
and would seem to have been a sepulchre. The monu-
ment being round, and of a very solid and beautiful
style of construction, reminds me of Caecilia MetehVs
tomb in the neighbourhood of Rome: but they differ
greatly in their age; for this monument was undoubt-
edly in existence long before the earliest beginnings of
1 The portion engraved is lfi feet 3 inches long, and about 6 feet
high.