Citadel. 
RUINS OF PLAT^A. 109 
century, gives an account of the curiosities of chap.' 
. Ill 
the city, and relates the traditions of its inhabi- . 
tants*. Future travellers, who have leisure for 
making excavations, will find this spot very 
likely to reward them for the labour and 
expense of such an undertaking. The founda- 
tions of temples are visible among the vestiges of 
the citadel, and the remains of toivers are 
conspicuous upon its walls. A remarkable 
proof of the great antiquity of mural turrets in Mural 
military architecture was afforded in a former of th« 
Part of these Travels'; and this style of 
building characterizes the fortifications of 
Plat.ea. In the account given of the citadel 
by Thucydides, we further learn that it was 
protected by ^. fosse: yet such was the simplicity 
of the means used for securing those antient 
fastnesses, compared with the complicated 
structure of a modern fortress, that when the 
Thehans, after their vain attempt to surprise 
the city, endeavoured to effect their retreat, 
they cut the wooden bolt of the gates asunder; 
(2) Vid.P«^^5aM. lib. ix. cc. 1. 2, 3, 4. i<l. Kuhnii. 
(3) ^&e tYiQ rignette to Chap. II. vol. II. of the Octavo Edition of 
these Travels ; also the observations which afterwards occiir in that 
Chapter, p. 69, upon a very antient medul found in Jtliice Junta, whence 
that / 'ignellc was taken. 
