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The city walls are easily traceable throughout
this entire circuit - the west wall is pretty
well preserved for several hundred meters.

It was stoutly built though not of finished stone
and was laid without mortar - it is about
4 meters thick. In a portion of the W. wall
which I measured there are redoubts every
38 meters projecting 1m 80 in the interior - These
are 7m. wide.

The gates are fine specimens of monumental
arch're built of well dressed blocks. Of these
there were six - one at the east partially preserved
and one at the west of which only a few fragments
remain - two, one large and one small,
in the N. and S. walls. Both of those in the S. wall
are well preserved ^ as is ^ the main N. gate.

The four great gates, which mark the ends of the
great paved avenues, are all of the same design,
triple arched portals - plain on the interior and
embellished with pilasters and engaged columns
on the outer face (see drawing opposite). The smaller
gates which opened upon the less important parts
of the city have but a single arch.