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tion, and immediately opposite to them is an outer wall of a semicircular form. We naturally searched here for another entrance to the town, but could find no appearance of there ever having been one : yet, except it were for the defence of a gateway, there does not seem to be any sufficient reason why these turrets should be larger than the rest ; and if there were no entrance through them to the town there has been none on the south side at all. On the north side of Teuchira (it wiU appear in the plan) no part of the city wall is remaining, and it is probable that it has been undermined by the sea which appears to have here advanced (as it has on other parts of the coast) beyond its original bounds.

The line described by the walls, although somewhat quadrangular, is by no means a regular figure — a diagonal drawn from the opposite corners, at the north-east and south-western angles, would be a line of about three thousand two hundred English feet ; while that which would pass through the north-west and south-eastern angles would be about nine hundred feet shorter. The circuit of the walls has been estimated by Signor Della Celia at about two miles ; but we found it, by measurement, to be less than a mile and a half ; being comprised in a line of eight thousand six hundred English feet f .

* Nearly opposite to these, turrets, without the wall, are the remains of a very strong fort ; and this circumstance would perhaps seem to favour the idea of there having been a gate in the place here alluded to, the entrance to which would have been well defended by the fort.

i' The turrets attached to the walls are also described by the same author as round ; and it is difficult to imagine what could have occasioned this mistake, since they are all of them quadrangular, as will appear by the plait.