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204 and which has been, therefore, referred with much probability to a remote antiquity.$90$

On the east the fine polygonal masonry ceases, and the wall is built of rough, unhewn stones.

The summit of Agios Phokas commands an extensive view of the shore and adjacent islands. The whole coast is seen from Cape Monolithos to Castellos. On the right is a promontory called Yamurtos, behind which is Castellos; on the left, the promontory locally known as Armanistes, but called in the Admiralty Chart, Cape Monolitho.

Basilika is situated on a low hill, separated from Agios Phokas by a valley. The ruins here consist of the foundations of a number of houses built with square rough hewn blocks of Hellenic masonry. Ross considers these foundations as the remains of a medieval village built of ancient materials; a supposition which is not improbable. One of these houses measured 35 feet 3 inches by 38 feet 2 inches. The doorway was in width 4 feet 11 inches; it had an upright stone jamb on either side. The masonry of these houses was very like that of the foundations within the fortress at Chigri, in the Troad. (See ante, p. 129.) I could not discover traces of any wall round these ruins.

From Basilika we went to a place on the shore marked Kaniera in the Admiralty Chart. Here is a ruined modern village. Below, on the shore, was a square tower, which I did not examine.$91$

From Kamera we retraced our steps to Siana by a different route nearer Akramytis, and passed by some more Hellenic ruins on a hill called Campanis,