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tion, and immediately opposite to them is an outer wall of a semi- 
circular form. We naturally searched here for another entrance to 
the town, but could find no appearance of there ever having been 
one : yet, except it were for the defence of a gateway, there does not 
seem to be any sufficient reason why these turrets should be larger 
than the rest ; and if there were no entrance through them to the 
town there has been none on the south side at all^. On the north 
side of Teuchira (it wiU appear in the plan) no part of the city wall 
is remaining, and it is probable that it has been undermined by the 
sea which appears to have here advanced (as it has on other parts of 
the coast) beyond its original bounds. 
The line described by the walls, although somewhat quadrangu- 
lar, is by no means a regular figure — a diagonal drawn from the op- 
posite corners, at the north-east and south-western angles, would be 
a line of about three thousand two hundred English feet ; while that 
which would pass through the north-west and south-eastern angles 
would be about nine hundred feet shorter. The circuit of the walls 
has been estimated by Signor Della Celia at about two miles ; but we 
found it, by measurement, to be less than a mile and a half ; being 
comprised in a line of eight thousand six hundred English feet f . 
* Nearly opposite to these, turrets, without the wall, are the remains of a very strong 
fort ; and this circumstance would perhaps seem to favour the idea of there having been 
a gate in the place here alluded to, the entrance to which would have been well defended 
by the fort. 
i' The turrets attached to the walls are also described by the same author as round ; 
and it is difficult to imagine what could have occasioned this mistake, since they are all 
of them quadrangular, as will appear by the plait. 
