240 DEFENCES OF THE PASS. 



that ere long, these important and interesting 

 ruins will be subjected to a searching examina- 

 tion. Their picturesque beauty alone will amply 

 repay the visit of the traveller. 



We devoted a day to the re-examination of 

 the pass through which we had come to Termes- 

 sus. The wall and towers defending it, are 

 of good Greek architecture; there are ten towers, 

 each of which projects to defend the western 

 face, and is entered by a doorway on a level 

 with the ground on its eastern side. The 

 height of one of the towers which we measured 

 was twenty-six feet on its western side: this 

 fortification would therefore appear rather to 

 have been built and kept in order by the Pam- 

 phylians, as a defence against the attacks of 

 the mountaineers, than to have belonged to 

 the Termessians, No mention of fortifications 

 in the pass occurs in Arrian's narrative, which 

 is very circumstantial, and, as far as we had 

 occas m to test it, minutely correct. The cir- 

 cumstance, however, of the main body of the 

 Termessians retiring to their city at night, and 

 leaving but a small force to guard the pass, 

 would seem to imply that there were defences 

 in wl.ich they put great trust. As the army 



