. A description of the East, and some other countries . Pthere are remains of a theatre, the feats of which were not built onarches, but on the fide of the hill, it was two hundred and forty feet wide,and the fpace for the feats was eighty feet wide ; it is built of whitemarble, and there are remains of an arch ten feet wide in the front of walls arc built in a very particular manner in the front, as may befeen in the plan E, in the forty-feventh plate ; the ruins appeared inthat manner, though probably there was an entrance in the front. Itis a ruftic building, the ftones being rounded
. A description of the East, and some other countries . Pthere are remains of a theatre, the feats of which were not built onarches, but on the fide of the hill, it was two hundred and forty feet wide,and the fpace for the feats was eighty feet wide ; it is built of whitemarble, and there are remains of an arch ten feet wide in the front of walls arc built in a very particular manner in the front, as may befeen in the plan E, in the forty-feventh plate ; the ruins appeared inthat manner, though probably there was an entrance in the front. Itis a ruftic building, the ftones being rounded fo as to make a fegmentof near a quarter of a circle, and towards the lower part of every tierare knobs at certain diftances, which make it look more ruftic ; theymight be hewn fo in order to command the ftones in placing them. Towards the weft fide of the town there are ruins of two or three veryconfiderable buildings, which are fo deftroyed that it is impoflible tojudge of v?hat nature they were, and there are many walls to the weft of •4 thcni,. ,1 ilini r ? THE GREEK ISLANDS. 3 riiem, efpecially feveral arches, like thofe which are now built in theeaft for fliops; it is faid that formerly they ferved for that purpofe, andprobably there was a town here in the middle ages, which might conti-t nue till the iflands were taken from the Chriftians, when they might movefarther from the fea, not to be expofed to the infults of the Corfairs. Tothe weft of thefe there is a large pond made by a wall that confines thewaters which comes from the hills; it does not feem to be a very antientwork, but poffibly may have been defigned for a mill, as there is a millrace from it on a wall, which extends to a building, where, they fay,there formerly was one. In this part there are likewife two or threefniall ruined churches, and to the north of the port at Q_, there is a con-fiderable ruin of a building of hewnftone, with two or three tiers of brick,at the diftance of every four feet, which,
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