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about three hundred yards in length. They 

 are of a considerable thickness, and are faced 

 with squared blocks of limestone ; their average 

 height is now about ten feet above the plain, 

 much of the lower part being covered by the 

 soil. In the south wall is an arched entrance, 

 and in the eastern a wide gateway between 

 two solid square towers. There are no re- 

 mains within the walls except the ruined church 

 adjoining the monastery, but which is evidently 

 not connected with it either in style or date. 

 As the two gateways face the sea and the 

 ancient port, the building may have been an 

 agora or market-place, but it is one of several 

 doubtful ruins widely scattered over the plain. 

 Andriace, the ancient port of Myra, having 

 been clearly recognised by Captain Beaufort 

 at the bay of Andraki, where the boats trad- 

 ing with the district still anchor or find shel- 

 ter in a deep river opening into it, we were 

 not induced to lose a day in visiting it. But 

 seeing a spot marked Sura on the map attached 

 to Colonel Leake's Asia Minor, we told the priest 

 at the monastery that we wanted to find an 

 ancient place of that name in the neighbourhood, 

 little expecting much success to result from the 



