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for any domestic purpose : there are in this wall several quincunx 

 rows of small holes like loop-holes. 



Of this building it may be observed, that supposing it to be of 

 equal antiquity with the outer wall, it may possibly have been some 

 sort of temple, since that of Juggernaut is described to resemble an 

 immense cylinder fifty-feet in height. There also exist in Persia 

 two buildings which, though differing somewhat in shape, are yet 

 very analogous to this. One is near Persepolis among the tombs, 

 and is by the people called the Caabah of Zeratusht,* and by the 

 guides the Kemnai Khaneh, or trumpet station. It is about thirty 

 feet high, and twenty-three feet square, built in the most substan- 

 tial manner, and ornamented from top to bottom by loop-holes on 

 every side, which are placed in rows ; these are very deep sunk 

 into the stone-work, but do not go through. The other building, 

 except in being of greater height, and not in so perfect preservation, 

 is exactly similar ; it stands near an ancient tomb called Madre-i- 

 Suleiman. 



^= These fabricks may have been fire houses, or trumpet-towers, for 

 calling the people to public worship. So also may have been the 

 singular building of Cahir-Gal. It may also have been a work of 

 later times, fabricated of some of the debris of the original structure, 

 and erected as a place of defence. 



The situation is very similar to that of the Staigs ; a gentle de- 

 clivity towards the south, down to the sea shore, at about half a 

 mile distance ; on the west side a streamlet, on the north and east 

 the ground rises to the mountain of Cloghan Linaghan. Between 

 Cahir-Gal and the sea is a small patch of bog, which is separated 

 from the wall by a hollow, something resembling a fosse, but there 



* The cube of Zoroaster. — Ouselej's Travels in the East, II. pp 299 — 435. 



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