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FORTIFIED WALLS. 34 designer found himself of following the contours of the hill-side. The wall is about eight feet thick ; .it is broken at unequal distances by rectangular towers standing out very boldly from the curtain (see Figs. 34 and 240). The chief care of the architect seems to have been given to these towers, which are built of much larger units than the curtain ; it is only in the towers that we find stones six feet long. 1 The outer faces of these large blocks are quite in the rough, but elsewhere the stones are FIG. 240. One of the towers of Kryx. From Cavallari. better worked and more carefully squared. Salinas has noted these differences, but his attention is chiefly taken up with a curious feature to be found both in that part of the structure where large units are employed and in the part where the stones are small. The courses vary in height ; but once the height of a course is determined by the corner stone, the Phoenician builders 1 The only block of which M. Salinas gives the exact size is 5 feet 8 inches long by 4 feet high.