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 HARBOURS. 399 In time the town outgrew the island, and built for itself a rampart round the hill and the slopes which joined it with the sea on the east and north. A citadel was built on the highest summit, while temples, houses, and other buildings were grouped between the fortress and the sea-shore, whose ancient line may still be easily followed. A new cothon was excavated on the north-western face of the rampart, and served as the military port of that Utica FIG. 271. Plan of the naval harbour at Utica. From Daux. which resigned itself with so ill a grace to the supremacy of Carthage, and was always ready to make common cause with her enemies, whether they called themselves Scipio, Regulus, or Agathocles. This harbour was a rectangle of about 792 feet by 415 ; the corners were rounded. The two short sides and the long side away from the sea were lined with quays, behind which ran a two storied building, the lower story standing out a little beyond the