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 SlPYLUS AND ITS MONUMENTS. Greek origin ; the processes resorted to for its erection are identical with those met with in the Phrygian tombs of the Rhyndacus and the Sangarius valleys. Here, too, the effort to isolate the grave- chambers and provide a hollow space, more or less complete, between it and the mass of stone in which it has been hollowed, is occasionally seen. For the rest, the guiding principle and the data are exactly similar ; although the frontispiece has been given a fixed and sharply defined shape, it none the less preserves a solid and severe rusticity, in perfect accord with the grand plans of the mountain, and the broken lines of the native rock which covers and enframes it. Two other tombs, lately discovered, should be added FIG. 39. Tomb near Phocaea. WEBER, Trots tombeaux, Fig. 6. to complete the number of monuments found in the region of Hermus. They are said to be old, due, perhaps, to the age which preceded the birth of the Greek cities. 1 One, called by the Turks Sheitan Haman (the Devil's Bath), is hard by Phocaea ; and the other, which bears the Greek name of I Pelekiti, is about two hours' walk eastward of the ancient ruins of the same city, near the road which leads to Menenem. There is nothing remarkable about the first. Like the Charalambe tomb, it consists of two chambers, but in the floor of the inner apartment was hollowed a grave in the form of a trough. 2 The other is somewhat curious. 3 The im- 1 WEBER, Trois tombeaux, etc., pp. 129-136. 2 See Weber's plan, sections and elevations. 8 M. Solomon Reinach informs me that the above tomb was published as far back as 1831, in i vol. i8mo, now very rare, entitled Fragments (fun Voyage en Italic, en Grhe, et en Asie, 1829-1830, par Gautier d'Arc, Consul de France. VOL. i. '