Neither was it in _name_ only, but in _sanctity_ also, that the Greek _Myc-ene_ strove to imitate our _Muc-inis_. To this hour is to be found one of the ancient Pelasgian temples, vulgarly termed the _Treasury of Atreus_, from the mere circumstance, as Dr. Clarke well remarks, “of there being found a few _brass nails_ within it, and evidently for the purpose of fastening on _something_ wherewith the _interior surface was formerly lined_, and that many a long year before Atreus or Agamemnon!” The Doctor, however, was perfectly astray in supposing it a _sepulchre_! In form it is a hollow cone, fifty feet in diameter, and as many in height, composed of enormous masses of a very hard _breccia_, a sort of pudding-stone, the very material whereof most of our Round Towers are constructed, and the property of which is to indurate by time. The _Dune of Dornadella_ in Scotland is _identically_ the _same kind of structure_, built by our Tuath-de-danaans, and for the solemn purpose of _religion_ alone. This is so accurately described in an article in the _Edinburgh Magazine_, copied into _Pennant’s Tour_, that I too will make free to transcribe it. “It is,” says the reviewer, “of a circular form, and now nearly resembling the frustum of a cone: whether, when perfect, it terminated in a point, I cannot pretend to guess; but it seems to have been higher, by the rubbish which lies round it. It is built of stone, without cement, and I take it to be between twenty and thirty feet still. The entrance is by a low and narrow door, to pass through which one is obliged to stoop much; but perhaps the ground may have been raised since the first erection. When one is got in, and placed in the centre, it is open overhead. _All round the sides of the walls are ranged stone shelves, one above another, like a circular beaufait, reaching from near the bottom to the top._ The stones which compose these shelves are supported chiefly by the stones which form the walls, and which project all round, just in that place where the shelves are, and in no others; each of the shelves is separated into several divisions, as in a bookcase. There are some remains of an awkward staircase. _What use the shelves could be applied to I cannot conceive._ It could not be of any military use, from its situation at the bottom of a sloping hill, which wholly commands it. The most learned amongst the inhabitants, such as the gentry and clergy, who all speak the _Irish_ language, could give no information or tradition concerning its use, or the origin of its name.”