RUINS OF RHEY. 
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we easily discovered the foundations of its embattled works. 
And, directly from its base, a line of massy fortification appeared, 
reaching southward, and apparently defending the eastern face 
of the city, till it terminated in an immense square bulwark, 
flanked with towers, and making a fortress in itself. Thence, 
the wall curved round in an irregular oblique sweep towards the 
north-west, till it met another similar enormous square tower, 
flanked in like manner with six round ones. This tower, 
terminated not only that line of wall, but another, which had 
also started from the base of the promontory, and formed the 
northern front of the city; the whole fortified space between the 
three walls, taking the shape of a triangle. Its vertex touching 
the citadel-promontory, its base stretching south-west, from the 
one large square tower to the other. These walls are still many 
feet in height, of prodigious thickness; and have been additionally 
strengthened by proportionably sized towers, connecting the 
wall, and placed at point-blank arrow distance from each other. 
The two enormous fortress-like towers before mentioned, which 
terminate the south-eastern, and the north-western points of the 
triangle, are united with the walls; but in going along the outer 
side of the longest line, which stretches from the one square 
tower to the other, we find a third tower about the middle of 
the wall, but standing out at some distance from it. It is 
nearly of the same dimensions with the two others, and sup¬ 
ported in the same way, with round flanking towers. Probably 
a ditch and a bridge lay between this great bulwark, and the 
principal gate of the town; this entrance lying in almost a 
direct line with the citadel. The remains of other fortifications 
are near it, as if still more to protect this ingress, which opens 
to the south-western side of the plain. I have no doubt that 
