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mountain to the southward of the inclosures. We have already said 
that there is no appearance of any gates, by which the amphitheatre 
could have been accessible from the eastward, through the walled 
spaces here alluded to ; but we think there must have been a commu- 
nication originally, although there are at present no traces of any. 
There is a small building close to the eastern wall of the inclosures, 
apparently of very early construction : it is a simple quadrangle, 
without any interior divisions ; and the remains of several columns, 
all of which are not apparently in their original places, are still visible 
on the north side of the structure, but none are observable on the 
other sides. This building has also no gate, and it is evident from 
the appearance of the walls, all of which are standing, that there 
have never been any formed in it ; v,e will not pretend to say for 
what purpose it may have been erected. 
In returning from the amphitheatre to the city, the road skirts 
the edge of the cliff, which descends everywhere abruptly, and the 
soil is kept up by strong walls along the brink of the descent, without 
which it would be washed down by the winter rains, and the build- 
ings in time undermined. It is over a part of this wall that the 
fountain of Apollo (which in ancient times was copiously distri- 
buted over the city and fertile lands of Cyrene) now precipitates 
itself, as it probably did in its natural state, into the plain, and finds 
its way to the sea. Near the end of this wall begin the ranges of 
tombs which skirt the northern face of the mountain below the city, 
descending in galleries one above another, till they reach the level of 
the plain at its foot. The summit is occupied by part of the city ; 
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