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and the land to the eastward of it, once an chap. 
island, with the Asiatic continent. The English 
Veined marble, whereof almost every vestige is obliterated. We now 
turned again eastward towards the Acropolis. Several arches of rough 
masonry', and a breast-work, support a large square area, probably the 
antient Agora, in which are the remains of a long colonnade, of white 
marble, and of the Doric order, the ruins of an antient Stoa. Here also 
is the foundation of another small temple. On the north of this area 
a broad street ran from the port towards the Acropolis, terminating near 
the port, in an arched gateway of plain and solid masonry. Above this 
are the foundations of houses on platforms rising towards the outward 
vaUs ; traces of a cross street near the Theatre ; and the Acropolis, of 
which nothing is left but a few ruined walls of strong brown stone, the 
same used for the substructions of the platforms into which the hill is 
cut. A few marbles, grooved to convey water from the hill of the Acro- 
polis, are scattered on part of this ground ; and we could trace the covered 
conduits of marble wherein it had been conveyed. We now descended 
again to the isthmus that separates the two harbours. In Strabo's time 
it was an artificial mole, over a narrow channel of the sea ; and the 
western part of the town stood on an island united by this isthmus to the 
continent. An arch still remains in the side of it, probably a part of this 
mole ; but the ruins which have fallen, with the sand that has accumu- 
lated on each side of it, have formed a neck of land here, about sixty or 
seventy yards across. The port on the north, as Strabo tells us, was shut 
by flood-gates ; and two towers are still to be traced, at the entrance to 
which the gates were fixed. It contained, he says, twenty triremes. The 
southern port is much larger, and protected from tlie open sea by a mole 
of large rough-hewn stones, which still remains. Beyond the ports, to 
the west, the town rose on a hill -. the form of this Strabo compares to 
thatr of a theatre, bounded from the mole on the south by steep preci- 
pices of rock, and on the north by walls descending from the ridge to 
the gates of the northern harbour, in a semicircular sweep. On this 
side of the town we found the old foundations of the houses, but no 
temples nor traces of ornamental buildings, and no marble. The 
circuit of the walls is perhaps three miles, including the two ports within 
them. A reference to the annexed Plan will give a clearer view of the 
situation than I am able to affoi-d by description only." (See the PTan 
annexed.) Mori-itt'f US. Journal. 
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