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which rises just above my paved upper platform, 

 to have been erected in the Acropolis ; and the 

 platform, with its adjoining splendour, to have 

 been part of the said Acropolis : or whether, 

 as is more probable, an upper summit of a snail, 

 which is crowned with the remains of a rect- 

 angular building one hundred feet long by fifty 

 feet wide, to have been it : it is quite clear that 

 the Acropolis of this city was not a fortress, 

 but a temple ; and I am most inclined to believe 

 that the last-mentioned building was the very 

 temple of Jupiter which formed the Acropolis 

 of Selge. It unquestionably was a temple, as the 

 number of columns scattered within and about 

 its three and a half feet-wide walls show ; and 

 along the slope arising towards it there are, every 

 here and there, steps cut in the rocks, which 

 evidently led from my paved platform towards it.* 

 " The next, and which you will perhaps think 

 a stronger evidence, was this : the first day I 



* The force of this evidence, on which Mr. Daniell justly 

 lays so much stress, depends on a passage in the account given 

 by Polybius, of the invasion of the territory of Selge by the 

 army of Achoeus, under the command of Garsyeris. When, 

 through the treachery of Logbasis, the city was about to 

 be delivered to Achoeus, Garsyeris is said to have led his 

 division of the troops against the Cesbidium, or temple of 



