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it : the stadium would probably afford little of interest, for the stones 
which were employed in its construction appear to have been carried 
away in later times to serve in other buildings ; and, indeed, little more 
could be expected from excavating the temples, than fragments of 
architecture too much decayed by time to render them particularly 
useful in furnishing details, or of statues which enthusiasm and 
bigotry have probably defaced, if they should even have been spared 
by the hand of time. 
The city walls approach closely to the southern extremity of the 
stadium, and are in this part very decided. They begin from the 
verge of a deep ravine, as will appear by the plan, and continue in 
an unbroken line to the spacious reservoirs (at the south-eastern 
angle of the city) which are mentioned in the publication of Dr. 
Della Celia. Here we lose traces of them, but they again make their 
appearance on the south side of the buildings just alluded to, and 
extend to the brink of the large ravine with which the aqueduct 
communicated. Beyond this (the aqueduct), a wall was unnecessary, 
for the mountain descends perpendicularly to the bed of the ravine, 
and renders all approach to the town in this direction impossible ; 
and as the wall of the aqueduct has not been built with arches, but 
carried along the mountain in a solid mass, it would have been fully 
sufficient for the purpose of defence, and was probably built solid 
with this intention. 
Square towers were attached to the city wall in various parts, not 
apparently at regular intervals, but approaching each other more 
closely where the ground was low, and consequently more favourable 
