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village, and is precipitous on all sides. It is a 

 pinnacle of the scaglia limestone, rising through 

 the soft marly deposits, of which the lower face 

 of the mountain is composed. On surmounting 

 the rock, we found it to have a narrow summit 

 of about two hundred and fifty paces in length, 

 and scarce twenty broad. The wall which 

 enclosed it was built of small stones and mortar, 

 with towers, now in a very dilapidated state ; 

 some of the fragments were plainly portions 

 of a more ancient acropolis, and some parts of 

 the substructure of the modern walls were evi- 

 dently the foundations of the ancient walls. Its 

 summit was too small to include many buildings, 

 and few remains were found ; one of them 

 appears to have been a Christian church, from 

 a marble fragment found near it, with three 

 crosses in low relief sculptured on it. Whilst 

 we were employed making a few sketches from 

 the summit, we were joined by a well-dressed 

 young Turk, who proposed to be our guide 

 through the ruins for a bakshish. We offered 

 him two piastres, but he demanded five, and at 

 length agreed to take three if we paid him at 

 once ; this we at first hesitated to do, but at 

 length agreed to, on his making strong professions 



