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Show Term Used by Masons The name "Cyclopean masonry" is given to walls constructed of large, Irregular, Ir-regular, but closely fitting stones, unhewn un-hewn and uncemented, specimens of which may still be seen at Mycenae ,J Th-yns'and other parts of Greece, and also in Italy. These walls were probably built by the Pelasglans, a jace. anterior to the Greeks and Ro-" Ro-" mans, about 1000 B. C. ; but later gen erations, struck by their vast proportions,. propor-tions,. nVrlbed their- construction to the fabulous race of the Cyclopes, whence . their name. , Examples of Cyclopean masonry exist also In Sicily, Ireland. Peru and Africa. Exchange. |