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Aegean Sea, Chesme victory, Athens, Corinth and Mycenae

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Immediately beyond the village of St. George, Karvati, or ancient Mycenae, and the tombs of the criminal family of Atrides, to which I approached with some kind of unpleasant feeling, are already visible. This monument is intact; it contains pieces of marble of non-pomfre size. I saw bas-reliefs and other decorations; but after Oiseul and Chateaubrlan, that I would become angry, I only saw that the living peasants, not suspecting the importance of this monument, and having not heard anything about the Atrids, were driving their rams into their tomb for the rest! () I am convinced that (°) It is impossible not to remember, however, in what form this comb girl presented herself, This underground structure, with a vault; It was mediated by the opening through which it was probably sanctified. Was there ever a part of this structure on top of the zeman, as for example in the tomb of Caetius-Metella near Rome, or was it simply located in this dungeon, like the Azeksandryevlya caves, it cannot be prefaited. They found nothing in it, and therefore it is impossible to even say definitively that this was definitely the tomb of Atamemnonov; Yuravla that Pavzani on = echntal five tombs in Mycenae: Atrssva, Agamemnonov, Eurymedontov, Teledamova in Pelogesv. Stietova and Ilitemneslrina were located on another side of the city. “The Lacedaemonians boasted that the Agamean Pohsronekt is near the vihi; but this has not only been proven, but it is also possible to find here the tombs of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, which, according to the descriptions, were located nearby.

Sent to Mycenae, I left my servant and a suitcase with belongings in Argos5, therefore I had to return the same way, and without a mouse I reached the bay, hired a boat in Lernf, which took me to Naviglia in a few hours (Maro- | 4: Voshaza). Here I found my ship and the good Messinian Captain, my Formentai and his comrade Casieri: they were ready to sail, and for the whole day they had been waiting only for me; That’s why I couldn’t dissect Navpli in detail: however, having stayed in it for almost 21 hours, and walking through its streets all day, I discovered something...

Approaching from the sea, you see a castle built on a separate rock, almost level with the sea: it’s just a thin tower, to which two houses are attached. It has a dvb or three cannons, and we assume that it is not at all dangerous for ships that would like to attack Navilia from this side. Two volleys would be enough to knock her over. absolutely. Having sailed past it, you come under the lines of another, already significant battery, built on the cape of the place where the ships anchor. Here I went out to the embankment and entered the city. The streets in Navia are wide, straight, beautiful, but they seemed empty and boring to me. Walking along the first of them 600 steps up the mountain, I approached a rampart with gates and embrasures, and looking up this mountain, I was surprised to see rows of batteries arranged along it in steps, and from which you can shoot through the lower city in all directions of the pier. Beautiful houses are built like an amphitheater along the mountain, and everything here shows excess, even some luxury. Another barrier separates this second city from Palamidi, or the citadel. It has the same gates and embrasures with cannons, Nalamidi (which probably received its name from Palamis, the son of Navilev, who died a victim of the cunning of the insidious Odysseus), is nothing more than a high stone rock on which the citadel of Navplsh is built. She is well stocked with supplies. 25 mi, cannons, and it is very difficult to take it, because this rock is extremely steep and rises like a cliff on three sides. It is approachable only from the west, but even here it is protected by a covered path and casemates B, so arranged that their floors allow quite a lot of room for the beetles and rumbles that they protect. It takes about half an hour to get from the base of Palamidi to the top on which the citadel is built. This fortification consists of a pentagon, flanked by five regular bastions, armed with 36 and H0-mount cannons, very serviceable. There are also extensive reservoirs for accumulating and storing water. (There are no stories of antiquity. I don’t want to describe Navili in detail, and I won’t outline the history of the siege of it and the entire recent revolution. I spent too little time here and couldn’t get to know the details well, which, however, have been described so many times that, probably, nothing new can be said. But the Aeins won’t be rebuilt, maybe be revered as the capital of the new Greek state. Deputies gather here; here are the main shops, the supreme court; but since King Otto and the Governing Council were based in Aeina, it is likely that Navimya will soon be empty. For all this, it will always remain one of the most important points for the defense and trade of the Peloponnese.