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364 TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF
natural line of precipices which must have greatly
assisted the defences on this side. This line extends
from the summit of the ridge on the south to the
mouth of the smaller harbour, which is defended
by a semicircular tower, still remarkable for the
solidity of its masonry. A view of this tower
is given in Plate LIT. Upper View. On the south,
the line of wall can only be traced at intervals, as
on this side the mountain-ridge forms a natural
sea-wall, offering to an invader nothing but sheer
precipices, which it would be hardly possible to
scale. On the eastern extremity of the peninsula
a line of wall runs down to the shore outside the
mole which protects the larger harbour.
The city on the continent is fenced in by a lime-
stone ridge, which, ascending gradually from the
western shore, terminates on the east in a kind of
natural citadel.
Behind this ridge, on the north, is a deep
ravine, which may be considered as the fosse of
this natural line of defence, and which affords
very few approaches by which its steep sides
may be scaled. Between the western extremity
of the ridge and the mouth of the smaller har-
bour the ground slopes gradually down to the sea.
The lowness of the shore here rendered this one of
the points in the line of the fortifications most liable
to attack from the sea. South of the Acropolis, the
ridge terminates in a sheer precipice, below which
the ground falls in a steep slope to the sea. This
part, like the corresponding part of the eastern wall
at Budrum, was naturally open to attack. The wall,
natural line of precipices which must have greatly
assisted the defences on this side. This line extends
from the summit of the ridge on the south to the
mouth of the smaller harbour, which is defended
by a semicircular tower, still remarkable for the
solidity of its masonry. A view of this tower
is given in Plate LIT. Upper View. On the south,
the line of wall can only be traced at intervals, as
on this side the mountain-ridge forms a natural
sea-wall, offering to an invader nothing but sheer
precipices, which it would be hardly possible to
scale. On the eastern extremity of the peninsula
a line of wall runs down to the shore outside the
mole which protects the larger harbour.
The city on the continent is fenced in by a lime-
stone ridge, which, ascending gradually from the
western shore, terminates on the east in a kind of
natural citadel.
Behind this ridge, on the north, is a deep
ravine, which may be considered as the fosse of
this natural line of defence, and which affords
very few approaches by which its steep sides
may be scaled. Between the western extremity
of the ridge and the mouth of the smaller har-
bour the ground slopes gradually down to the sea.
The lowness of the shore here rendered this one of
the points in the line of the fortifications most liable
to attack from the sea. South of the Acropolis, the
ridge terminates in a sheer precipice, below which
the ground falls in a steep slope to the sea. This
part, like the corresponding part of the eastern wall
at Budrum, was naturally open to attack. The wall,