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 SlPYLUS AND ITS MONUMENTS. bold hillock which bears these ruins is further inland and on a lower plane than the Acropolis, on a line with the village of Petrota, towards the head of the valley washed by a stream, supposed to be the Acheleos. Its truncated summit, with vertical sides, forms a striking feature in the landscape which it commands ; and to this circumstance it probably owes its modern name of Ada, " island.' l FIG. 22. Plan of Sanctuary in the lamanlar Dagh. WEBER, Le Sipylos, Plate III. It is a plateau more or less level, 70 m. by 20 m., which divides itself into three distinct parts (Fig. 22) : a square, massive rock to the north, with precipitous sides 4 m. high (N in plan) ; an esplanade on a lower level with a circular hole in the middle, resembling the mouth of a cistern or well (R) ; and, by far the most remarkable feature, a gigantic rock, 22 m. by 13 m. broad, which forms the southern extremity of the ridge (M). A deep chasm, 8 m. long 1 RAMSAY, Ntu>ly discovered Sites, p. 68.