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Spanish manuscript, states that it was erected in honour of 

 some of the Caesars. Near its base was discovered a stone 

 bearing the following inscription : the translation of which is 



attended with some 

 difficulty from de- 

 facement, as well 

 as the number of 

 contractions of the 

 text. In any at- 

 tempt at doing so 

 it should be com- 

 pared with the in- 

 scription at p. 593. 

 Baron Humboldt 

 states thatLaborde, 

 who furnished him 

 with a copy of these 



MARTI . 

 AVG.SACR. 

 G.SEVIVS . 

 LVPVS. 

 ARCHITECT VS. 



AF:;--.;-sis. 



LVSITANVSEXV? 



lines, likewise in- 

 formed him, I suppose from the inscription, that * this 

 Pharos was constructed by Caius Sevius Lupus, architect of 

 the city of Aqua Flavia (Cheves), and that it was dedicated 

 to Mars.' 



" Strabo, indeed, affirms that Galicia had been peopled 

 by Greek colonies, and according to an extract from the 

 Geographies of Spain, by Asclepiades, the Myrlean, an 

 ancient tradition, slated that the companions of Hercules 

 settled in these countries. Very few Spanish authorities 

 mention this ancient ' Torre del Pliaro,' or, as it is some- 

 times called, The Iron Tower; and the appearance which it 

 must have presented when originally built, accords precisely 

 with the descriptions which we read of the ancient Pharos at 

 Messina, and also that at Alexandria, around which we know 

 there wound an external spiral staircase, so broad and so 

 gentle in ascent that it is recorded a car and 'oxen could 

 with faciUty pass to the top. The Spanish manuscript, which 



