1^92' letter from Senex. 6t 



ancient fortifications in which the wells had been en- 

 tirely filled up, but the place where they had been 

 is always pointed out by the country people in the 

 neighbourhood. And 



Lastly, it is certain that there never was, in any 

 of these structures, the smallest opening in the wall^ 

 outward, through which any kind of mifaile weapon 

 could have been thrown, to annoy the afsailants ; all 

 the apertures in the wall, (which are in many cases 

 very numerous,) being on the inside towards the cir^ 

 eular area, where they 'could have been of no service 

 had this been the original intention of these struc- 

 tures. There is even good reason to believe that 

 the stairs, in no case while the buildings were entire, 

 reached the top of the wall ; so that the afsailants- 

 might have come with great safety to the very foot 

 of the wall, and deliberately pulled it down, while 

 those within must have patiently waited their fate, 

 without a pofsibility of giving their afsailants the 

 smallest annoyance. 



From these considerations, to mention no more, I 

 do not think it pofsible for any person seriously to 

 ') -lieve that tliese structures had ever been intended 

 to serve as places of defence. 



T.'j be cuniinued. 



To the Editor cf the Bee. 

 Sir, 



•H-AViNG been for some months past in such a poor 

 state of health as to be obliged to forego my usual 

 amusement of reading, I had not an opportunity, till 

 very lately, to know of the very obliging letter ad- 



