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doors through the towers; and as the wall rose up the steep
side of the hill, the terrace was formed of a flight of steps;
several of the towers had only been breastwork, having but
three walls, the inner side being left open.

This place does not appear to me ever to have been a city,
for the walls contain but one building, and this at the lower
corner. JSTo loose stones, or cuttings of the bare rocky
ground for foundations, show that any other buildings ever
existed. What this one structure has been, must remain a
mystery; its form, painted walls, and arched domes, are pre-
cisely the same as those of the ruin I have described at
Sidyma. Within this building lay a broken pedestal, with
an inscription. In turning over the stone we killed a scor-
pion, which lay concealed beneath it. On the outside of the
wall were the remains of a small ruined building, again of
the same construction, but still less perfect; it had its three
chambers, with dome tops and painted walls. Only two
tombs were to be found in the neighbourhood, and they were
near the outside of the south gate. An inscription upon
a stone which had been over the doorway of one of them,
I think may assist to strengthen my opinion that this place
was a stronghold or fort of the Xanthians, and that the
soldiers of the fort may have lived in tents or buildings of
perishable materials, no traces of which are left within the
walls. Three lines of this inscription are cut upon the orna-
mental moulding, and have apparently been added at a sub-
sequent period^. There are no signs of other tombs, and
no theatre or public buildings*

Close to the scala, and near to our tent, is an isolated rock,
the whole of which is crowned with a well-built Greek wall,
which appears to have been the basement of a temple or
some single building; its situation, rising out of the plain,
is imposing.

* The inscription orders that the penalty for disturbing the tomb
should be paid to the City of Xanthus.

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