Gell, William; Gandy, John P. : Pompeiana: the topography, edifices and ornaments of Pompeii (Band 1) (London, 1824)

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an appearance strongly resembling that of
certain modern Turkish fortresses; where
the works, originally Greek, and well con-
structed, have descended through a series
of barbarous possessors, and undergone
many centuries of ill-judged repairs \

Towers are placed at unequal intervals,
twenty-seven feet by thirty-three, project-
ing forward seven, and composed of rubble
walls, three feet in thickness, in three
stories. Between them, supported by a
double wall, ranged the ramparts; the
whole nearly twenty feet wide, including
the two walls, and varying in height from
the ground twenty-five to thirty, according
to the local level. They communicated
through the towers by arched door-ways
on the third or upper story2.

Embattled parapets were raised upon

1 Frequently over the bad work occur three or four
courses of regular masonry, in good blocks.

" Mons. Mazois, in his magnificent work, to which the
reader may refer for more detailed information respecting the
walls, as well as every other part of Pompeii, remarks, that