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the part which ran down from the gateway with that which we dis- 
covered on the opposite side of the quarry, extending itself from 
thence to the sea. The remains of the wall between the quarry and 
the sea are very conspicuous and decided ; they run down quite to 
the water’s edge, and are here about eight feet in thickness, and, in 
some parts, as much as twelve and thirteen feet in height With- 
out these (to the westward), almost buried in sand, are the remains 
of the Naustathmos (or naval station), built for the protection of 
vessels : they begin from the wall, following the line of the beach 
towards the mouth of the western ravine, and were themselves pro- 
tected from the sea by a breakwater of about fourteen feet in thick- 
ness. The walls of the v(po^f/.oi (uphormoi)f are seven feet in thick- 
ness, and the spaces which they inclose, where the vessels were sta- 
tioned, as much as thirty and forty feet across, in those parts which 
the sand had not altogether covered. To the westward of the ravine, 
other traces of wall are visible, extending themselves from that (in a 
line with the beach) along a road which leads towards the quarries, 
in which are the insulated tombs already alluded to, represented in 
plate (p. 355). Further traces of walls are observable running round 
this harbour towards the point marked A in the plan ; and it seems 
to have been altogether divided from the inland country, as we find 
* We mean, of course, in their present ruined state, for the original height of the 
wall cannot now be ascertained. 
•f These divisions, composing the Naustathmos, were termed (ormoi), vtpogpt-oi 
(uphormoi), or vavXojcot (naulokoi), as mentioned in the account of the ports and harbours 
at the end of the Narrative. 
