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 TiRYNS. 255 which they determined. Guided by ancient writers, they identi- fied it without any difficulty, between NaupHa and Argos, some 1,500 metres from the sea, towards the south-east corner of the plain, on the lowest and flattest of the several rocky hills which Fig. 67.— Map of A^olis. island-like rise out of the marshy level (Fig. 68). They made straight for the spot called Palaeo-Kastro, led thither by remains of an enclosure built of enormous stone blocks belonging to the town which, said tradition, had been the birthplace of Heracles. The prodigious depth of its ramparts, and the inner galleries