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 FORTIFIED WALLS. 345 modern name of the place is San Pantaleone. The stones are of great size and are set in regular courses, without cement. There are, or at least there were at the end of the last century, two very well preserved towers on the western side. The base of the enceinte was washed by the sea, and the place, as a whole, must have been very strong. 1 We may be told that in Sicily the Phoenicians had Greek walls to copy from, and that they may even have employed Greek work- men, either seduced by bribes or chosen from among the prisoners of war and compelled to use their skill for the benefit of their masters. FIG. 243. Postern in the wall of Eryx. From Salinas. Inside view. But this idea is discredited by the fact that in a country never reached by Grecian navigators, in that Mauritania Tingitana, as the Romans called it, which we know as Morocco, we find masonry carried out upon the same system as in these Sicilian 1 Speaking of Solunte, SERRA DI FALCO mentions a wall "di grossi macigni squad- rati" ; but he gives no drawing of it (Le Antichita della Sicilia, vol. v. p. 60); he is content with giving a view of the site, in which the ruins themselves are hardly visible. The fortifications of Motya are represented in HOUEL, Voyage pittoresque des lies de Sidle, de Malte, et de Lipari (4 vols. folio, Paris, 1782-1785, vol. i. p. 17, plate ix.). VOL. I. Y V