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it may be called, although it never could have been employed for 
military purposes, are the remains of a subterranean storehouse 
for grain, the roof of which is raised about a foot from the ground 
above it and composed of cement : between this and the tower there 
is a sort of well, which appears to be the entrance to the storehouse, 
but which was too much encumbered with rubbish to allow of our 
descending into it. Some traces of walls attached to the roof of the 
storehouse may be seen in the ground-plan annexed, but we could 
not determine whether either these, or the souterrain itself, were 
originally attached to the building. 
No architectural remains could be perceived among the fallen 
ruins of the tower by which we might have been enabled to fix the 
time of its erection with more precision ; and the base of the pilaster 
which we have mentioned at the angle of the building, is the only 
evidence of this nature which we could obtain. 
To us this structure appears to be Saracenic ; but if others should 
be disposed to think differently, and to adopt it as the tower of 
Euphrantas, the circumstance of its having (at least in our opinion) 
been built as an object merely without any other apparent use, 
might perhaps be considered by some persons, to favour the idea ; 
and we are a little surprised that Signor Della Celia did not adopt 
it in preference to the building which he has pointed out. 
With regard to the columns with the illegible inscriptions, which 
the Doctor supposes to have been boundaries ; we know of no other 
objects which will at all answer to his description but those at 
Hamed Garoosh ; and our guides, as well as the Arabs of the place, 
were obstinate in persisting that there were no others of any kind. 
