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 HARBOURS. 39! were wide quays ; l the galleys, he thinks, were hauled up high and dry after being relieved of their ballast and rigging. Beule flattered himself he had found some remains of the Ionic colonnade which surrounded the harbour. 2 But our present business is less with a superficial and foreign-born ornament like this than FIG. 266. The harbours of Carthage according to Eeule. with the arrangement of the harbour as a whole, an arrangement whose leading lines are given by the text of Appian, by the present aspect of the ground, and by the scanty fragments of the ancient structures brought to light by excavation ; these excavations, how- ever, have only been partial and are now again filled up, so that it is impossible to test the accuracy of conclusions which were arrived FIG. 267. Arrangement of the berths according to Beule. at very quickly. Many details are still obscure. Were the cham- bers beneath the water-level really cisterns, as Daux will have 1 DAUX, Recherche $, p. 182. 2 Fouilles a Carthage, pp. 109, no, pi. v., figs. 8 and 9. Beule seems to have been mistaken in placing a pair of coupled columns between each berth and the next ; there could hardly have been more than one, for otherwise walls at their back would have been so thick as to complicate the work unnecessarily and to waste much space. Three columns were enough for two berths. So that we arrive at a grand total, not of 440 columns, as Beule says (p. 1 10), but of 224. JAL, Dictionnaire, P- 327-