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 234 Recent Excavations at Carthage. was built of squared blocks of tufa, generally laid in courses, but occasionally joggled one into the other ; some of them were of large size, measuring as much as 5 feet by 3 feet. The lower portion only of this wall remained, of various heights, but nowhere exceeding 15 feet. The wall was hollow, as will be seen by the accompanying plan (fig. 7). m The outer wall was about 6 feet 6 inches thick ; behind this was a corridor 6 feet 2 inches wide, into which opened a series of cells with semi-circular terminations ; they had narrow entrances, and were 13 feet 8 inches long, and 10 feet 9 inches wide; they were divided from each other by walls 3 feet 6 inches thick, and from the corridor by another 3 feet 3 inches thick; the wall at the further end of each cell was 3 feet 3 inches thick, and formed a straight line parallel with the outer wall. The whole breadth of the forti- fication was 32 feet 10 inches, agreeing very fairly with big I. PL*. OF WALLS, CARTHAOK. the dimension of 30 feet Greek (30 feet i inches English) mentioned by Appian, and still better with that of 22 cubits (33 feet 1- inches English) given by Diodorus. c A ithin the cells was discovered a layer of ashes from 3 to I feet in thick- ness, evidently the remains of a great conflagration. Among them were molten o o lumps of metal, such as iron, copper, tin, and lead, fragments of thin white glass, sling-bullets made of compact terra-cotta, and fragments of pottery. The last consisted of three different kinds : some of them resembled the Archaic pottery discovered at Corinth and elsewhere, which from its peculiar style has been termed Gr;eco- Phoenician. Others were fragments of a black glazed ware, resembling the fabrics of Xola, and evidently of Greek origin. The third variety was of a peculiar orange colour, and is considered by M. Beule to have been of local manufacture. There were also pieces of half-charred wood, which he conjectures to be the remains of the beams which supported the upper corridors ; for we learn from Appian that the walls were built hollow, and in stages. At the foot of the wall on the outside were found three sculptured fragments, two of them of calcareous stone and the other of marble." They are nearly alike in pattern, and closely resemble part of a marble slab discovered by Mr. The Plan is copied from that published by M. liculd, Journal des Savants, Nov. 1859, pi. ii. fig. I. 11 Lib. viii. c 95. ' Rt-1. lib. xxxij. Eel. 2.
 * Engraved in Journal des Savants, Nov. 1859, pi. ii. fig. 35.