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one of those before mentioned, running down the hill from
the citadel. Here there appears to have been an addition
to the original city, which a reference to the map will best
explain; yet the style of building is so ancient, that the
walls in each enclosure may possibly be of nearly the same
period. A specimen of these ruins, shewing the founda-
tions of a small gate, is given in No. 4. The architrave
was not visible among the fragments which surround it.
The gate is six feet wide.
Near the gate, the long walls from the citadel are more
perfect and free from bushes than in other parts of the hill.
No. 5 is a drawing of a part of it. Here the enclosure be-
gins to exhibit the remains of terraces, supported by walls
of the highest antiquity, and, without doubt, once occu-
pied by the houses and streets of the town. At the dis-
tance of one hundred and fifty paces above the gate, is ano-
ther line of wall still parallel with the first, and close above
it, seems to have been a gate opening into the other divi-
sion of the city, from which a broader terrace, evidently
once the site of the principal edifices of the town, (what-
ever they might be) runs to the opposite wall. This me-
mm
one of those before mentioned, running down the hill from
the citadel. Here there appears to have been an addition
to the original city, which a reference to the map will best
explain; yet the style of building is so ancient, that the
walls in each enclosure may possibly be of nearly the same
period. A specimen of these ruins, shewing the founda-
tions of a small gate, is given in No. 4. The architrave
was not visible among the fragments which surround it.
The gate is six feet wide.
Near the gate, the long walls from the citadel are more
perfect and free from bushes than in other parts of the hill.
No. 5 is a drawing of a part of it. Here the enclosure be-
gins to exhibit the remains of terraces, supported by walls
of the highest antiquity, and, without doubt, once occu-
pied by the houses and streets of the town. At the dis-
tance of one hundred and fifty paces above the gate, is ano-
ther line of wall still parallel with the first, and close above
it, seems to have been a gate opening into the other divi-
sion of the city, from which a broader terrace, evidently
once the site of the principal edifices of the town, (what-
ever they might be) runs to the opposite wall. This me-
mm