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to have been usual with the ancients, more particularly in time of 
war *. We had no opportunities of ascertaining whether any other 
remains of a cothon are to be seen between the points A and B, 
where the (keelai, or cornua), the claws, or horns (as they were 
called) of the harbour, would be looked for if any such had formerly 
existed. Eemains of a wall running round the small port within the 
town (on the eastern side of point B), and which we may call the 
eastern harbour, are still visible ; and a strong fort yet remains on 
either side of it, at the eastern and western extremity of the wall, 
which appeas to have been often the case f . 
The Pharos, or light-house, if any such existed, was probably 
erected on the high ground on point B, in the neighbourhood of the 
fort at its eastern extremity, and columns and other fragments of 
building, at the back of the western port, point out the places of 
those structures usually erected by the ancients near their harbours, 
for the accommodation of the merchants and sailors : here also 
are the remains of a .bridge which was formerly thrown across the 
ravine, running down to the wall of this port. 
We have already said that traces of the city-wall are observable 
between the quarry which contains the amphitheatre and the gate- 
way ; and a portion of it may also be remarked extending from the 
latter to the mountains at the back of the town ; where they are con- 
nected with other parts of it running along the foot of the range to 
the inner bank of the eastern ravine. There again decided remains 
* See account of ports and harbours, (p. 21). 
t Ibid. 
