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possible to give any satisfactory account of them, and we have not 
ventured, in our plan of the town, to hazard any attempt at restoring 
them. There are also some interesting remains of buildings at the 
north-eastern angle of the city, where part of a quarry has been en- 
closed within the walls for the better defence of the place, to which 
indeed it effectually contributes ; a strong fort has been built at this 
angle, in an elevated and commanding position, which appears to 
have been the citadel, or strong-hold of the town. Without the 
walls, to the westward of the town, there are also some interesting re- 
mains, the plans of which we attempted to complete without success : 
we found there a group in alto-relief, apparently of Koman work- 
manship, of which we have given an outline at page 367. There were 
probably, in earlier times, many statues in the city of Teuchira ; but 
none of them at present remain, not, at least, that we could discover ; 
and they have, perhaps, not survived the barbarism of the Vandals, or 
the fanaticism and ignorance of those who have succeeded them. 
We now pass to the remains of Ptolemeta ; and shall begin by 
observing, that no traces of the wall, which originally enclosed it would 
present themselves to the notice of a casual observer in taking a 
general view of the town. On examination, however, in the neigh- 
bourhood of the gateway, with which it seems probable that walls 
have been connected, we discovered traces of them running straight 
down to the quarry, in which we have already mentioned the amphi- 
theatre was built and excavated. Here we found that the wall had 
passed through the quarry ; and that a portion of the rock had been 
left on each side of it, in the line of the w^alfs direction, connecting 
