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to Pausanias, Miny&s, who governed in Bceotia, erected the first at Orchomenos , and thewealth contained in that at Delphos is mentioned by Ilomer, where Achilles rejects the offerof Agamemnon .

The treasury of Atrcus at Mycenae, and another at Ilyricus, is described by Pausanias .When the writer measured the first-mentioned building in 1818, there was no portion ot

square door, which had a large stone for its lintel, the weight above being discharged by agradual gathering over of the courses. It is nearly 50 feet in diameter and in height;two stones cover the entrance passage, one of which is 27 feet long, 16 feet broad, and 4feet thick.

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The Greeks, the inventors of many of the arts of construction, have left us, in their tombs,forms serviceable to the civil engineer, and which tell us also of the gradual progress madein architecture.

In Mr. Fellowes’s volume, the method adopted by the Eycians of cutting their tombsout of the solid rock is admirably given ; in some examples we have imitations of timber