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appeared in the Neighbourhood of Syracufe. 247 
Tyche, or the third city, extended northerly from Achra- 
dina to Epipole; commencing at the bottom of the port of 
Trogilus, which forms its fouth-eaftern boundary. Eat, it 
was defended by a ftrong wall; and a wall divided it, on the 
welt, from Neapolis. The famous gate of Hexapylon was on 
the eaftern wall, and oppofite to the little town of Leon. 
Tyche was ornamented by the Gymnafium; and, though 
' now defolate, was once filled with inhabitants. It is verv 
elevated, rifing in rapid gradation from the wall of Achra- 
dina *, - 
Neapolis ran nearly parallel, and in the fame direction 
with Tyche; terminating on the north, with that quarter, at 
Epipole. On the eaft, fouth, and weit, it was equally pro- 
tected by a wall. The upper and northern part of Neapolis, 
as of Tyche, was elevated; its fouth-weftern extremity was 
confiderably lower. A noble theatre, and the temples of 
Ceres and Bacchus, were its moft diftinguifhed ornaments ¢. 
_ Epipole was originally a piece of high ground without the 
' city, and afterwards fo little inhabited that it is not men- 
tioned by Cicero in his defcription of Syracufe. The mof 
elevated fituation, and commanding Tyche and Neapolis, it 
was judicioufly inclofed by Dionyfius 1. who furrounded tt 
with a wall of near four miles m extent. Its addifional de- 
fence was the fortrefs of Labdalon, at its bottom, on the eaft; 
and that of Euryalus, at its top, on the north f. 
The whole extent of the city of Syracufe, according te 
Strabo, whofe account is verified by the concurrent teftimony 
of Mr. Swinburne, was equal to twenty-two miles and four 
furlongs Englith meafure §, 
To this brief defcription of the principal divifions of this 
famous city, it is neceflary to add a few remarks relative to 
its immediate vicinage, and the waters by which ig i is fur+ 
rounded. : 
The Great Harbour, or Port, is about five miles in cir- 
cumference, and forms, at its north-weftern extremity, the 
* Cicero. Rollin. De Non. Swinburne, 
4* Cicero. Rollin. De Non. Swinburne. 
t Rollin, Swinburme. De Non, 
§ Swinburne, Vol. II. p. 309: 
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