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to have been usual with the ancients, more particularly in time of war *. We had no opportunities of ascertaining whether any other remains of a cothon are to be seen between the points A and B, where the (keelai, or cornua), the claws, or horns (as they were called) of the harbour, would be looked for if any such had formerly existed. Eemains of a wall running round the small port within the town (on the eastern side of point B), and which we may call the eastern harbour, are still visible ; and a strong fort yet remains on either side of it, at the eastern and western extremity of the wall, which appeas to have been often the case f .

The Pharos, or light-house, if any such existed, was probably erected on the high ground on point B, in the neighbourhood of the fort at its eastern extremity, and columns and other fragments of building, at the back of the western port, point out the places of those structures usually erected by the ancients near their harbours, for the accommodation of the merchants and sailors : here also are the remains of a .bridge which was formerly thrown across the ravine, running down to the wall of this port.

We have already said that traces of the city-wall are observable between the quarry which contains the amphitheatre and the gateway ; and a portion of it may also be remarked extending from the latter to the mountains at the back of the town ; where they are connected with other parts of it running along the foot of the range to the inner bank of the eastern ravine. There again decided remains * See account of ports and harbours, (p. 21). t Ibid.