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 FORTIFIED WALLS. t -> 7 OvV pierced at three points by openings varying from 25 to 35 feet wide. There is no trace either of lintels or door-posts. The passage must have been barred by wooden gates set in timber frames. To the left of the north-western gate the salience of the wall with its triple face almost deserves to be called a tower. Elsewhere the trace is more simple ; the constructor has been satisfied with mere redans, but his determination to bring an attacking enemy under the full fire if we may use the word of the CYCLOPEAN RAMPAltT KEAR BANiAS. FIG. 237. Plan of the rampart near Bania?. garrison is always evident. Moreover there is, between the gates, a series of salient and re-entering angles, and they flank each other ; but they seem to have been dictated by the configuration of the soil. Except about the north-western gate the ground is everywhere higher within the rampart than it is outside, so that the fortification is riot commanded from any point in its near vicinity. The high ground within was cut into terraces and VOL. i. xx