ACROPOLIS OF TERMESSUS. 



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It will be seen by the plan that the city was 

 bounded by a line of heights forming a crescent, 

 in the recess of which was the acropolis. These 

 heights are extremely precipitous, and almost 

 inaccessible externally. At the very few preg- 

 nable points they are strongly fortified by Cyclo- 

 pean walls. The central and highest peak, 

 about four hundred feet above the Agora, was 

 an acropolis, of no great extent. It is from it 

 the view we give was taken ; the city itself is 

 four thousand feet above the sea, and commands 

 a view of the Pamphylian plain as far as Adalia. 

 It is one of the most elevated and naturally im- 

 pregnable cities of Asia Minor, and well might 

 it defy the attacks even of Alexander himself. 

 Easily reached from Adalia, it is to be hoped 



