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of the water that flowed through these conduits 

 it may have been a portion of the Catarrhactes. 

 The masonry is quite concealed by the calcareous 

 matter coating the several aqueducts. The in- 

 habitants appear to have luxuriated in their 

 abundant supply of water; which, while fertilizing 

 their territory, in a great degree counteracted the 

 intensity of the summer heat on so dead a flat. 



A straight canal or cistern eight feet broad, 

 three feet high, and between three and four 

 hundred Tds long, constructed of large slabs 

 of limestone, traversed the city. It is in perfect 

 preservation, but filled to the brim with soil : 

 coarse figures of fish and other animals are 

 sculptured upon its sides. Parallel with the 

 canal runs a flagged way, by which were ranged 

 the principal public buildings : stone benches 

 are placed at intervals by the canal side. The 

 architecture and ornaments of all are in keeping 

 with the style of the sarcophagi, and indicate a 

 late and tasteless epoch. At each end of the 

 cistern are two inscribed square pedestals, and a 

 similar pair by its centre. On one of them the 

 words 



nOTAMOS AArONQN 

 occur. Of Lagon, then, these ruins are probably 



