. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. 12 HISTORY or ARCHITLCTUUE. Book 1. fet-t above the level of the plain, the foundations of its inclosure being still perfect andtraceable, as in the annexed figure i^jiff. 11.)- The ancient city is thought to have sur-. .-.,,-^^ ? TBS Aicaoeons or Txara& rounded the fortress, and that formerlv the city was nearer the sea than at present Bryant,with his usual ingenuity, has found in its general form a type of the long ship of Danaus,wliieh, we confes
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. 12 HISTORY or ARCHITLCTUUE. Book 1. fet-t above the level of the plain, the foundations of its inclosure being still perfect andtraceable, as in the annexed figure i^jiff. 11.)- The ancient city is thought to have sur-. .-.,,-^^ ? TBS Aicaoeons or Txara& rounded the fortress, and that formerlv the city was nearer the sea than at present Bryant,with his usual ingenuity, has found in its general form a type of the long ship of Danaus,wliieh, we confess, our imagination is not lively enough to detect. On the east of thefortress are quarries, which furnish stors similar to that whereof it is built. It had entrancesfrom the east and the west, and one at the south-eastern angle. Tliat on the east, lettereti .^.is prettv fairly preserved, and is approached by an inclined access, B, 15 fL wide, alongthe eastern and southern sides of the tower, C, which is 20 ft. square and 40 ft. higli,p:.ssing, at the end of the last named side, under a gateway, composed of very large blocksof stone, tliat which forms the architrave being 10 fL long, and over which, from the frag-ments lying on the spot, it is conjectured that a triangular stone was placed ; but thereonis no appearance of sculpture. D is the present e
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