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 RELIGIOUS AND MILITARY ARCHITECTURE. 3*7 The wall of another Carian city, Alinda, whose ruins cover a considerable area, should be noticed. " The towers which flanked the rampart of both Acropolis and city are almost entire. They Fie. 222. Leleges' Wall. Plan of tower and adjacent rampart. TfexiER, Description^ Plate CXLVII. were provided with banquettes and loopholes for the defence. Above them, on a peaked rock that dominated the town and even the Acropolis, rose a fortified tower, whose function was to guard FIG. 223. Leleges' Wall. View of tower. Ibid., Plate CXLIX. so important a point." 1 Fig. 224, after M. Tremaux' plan, shows the direction of the wall and the towers distributed about it. It will be observed that its most oblique course is from the first to 1 TR^MAUX, Exploration arche, en Asie Minenre, fol.