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through the rock for the purpofe of gaining an eafy afcent from 

 the level ridge to the fummit, which would otherwife have been 

 impradlicable. 



In mounting up by this road, and towards the middle of 

 the afcent, there appears a fniall platform overhanging the road, 

 upon the right hand, and inclining, by a very gentle declivity, 

 to the edge of the rock. Upon this platform, and on the very 

 edge and extremity of it, are placed four enormous ftones, 

 which have been evidently guided by art into that pofition ; as 

 it is impofllble, fuppofing them to have rolled down, that they 

 ever could have refted in that fituation. The pofture of thefe 

 ftones leaves no doubt as to the purpofe they were intended to 

 ferve. Upon an alarm of danger, the ftrength of a very few 

 men was fufficlent to raife thefe enormous ftones fo as to de- 

 ftroy their balance, and projedl them into the hollow road, 

 which they would entirely block up, and thus either prevent all 

 accefs, or render the pafs fo difficult, as to be with eafe defend- 

 ed by a few againft any number of aflailants. This winding 

 road, with the platform upon the right, may be feen in Plate I. 

 fig. 2. which is a fketch of the top or cone of the hill, as it 

 rifes from the level of the ridge to the weft. Some other 

 large ftones are likewife placed on an eminence to the left of 

 the road, evidently to ferve a fimilar purpofe with thofe on the 

 right, and to block up or defend a hollow channel, by which 

 an afcent might have been attempted, by following the waving 

 direction of the natural furrows of the hill at B, C and D. 



On arriving at the fummit of the hill by the winding road, 

 and a few feet below the rampart which crowns the top of the 

 hill, there appears an outward wall furrounding the whole, 

 which approaches on the fides of the hill fo near to the upper 

 rampart, as to leave only a fofse or trench of ten or twelve feet 

 in width between them ; unlefs at the weft extremity, where 

 this outward wall extends itfelf to a greater diftance from the 

 inner rampart, and forms a level platform, of an oblong and 



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