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MILITARY ARCHITECTURE. 161 grooves down the inner face. A rectangular excavation, 10 c. deep, occurs between the two saliences, with a corresponding one in the parapet. Spurs, grooves, and artificial hollows seem to indicate that an apparatus had been prepared on this spot, either to serve as war engine or derrick, which by means of pulleys would haul up heavy loads. It is not likely that a garrison was stationed here all the year round ; the green sward of the woodlands hard by had greater attraction than the plateau, now swept by the wind, now heated like a furnace ; but every measure was taken to ensure the prompt victualling of the stronghold and place it on a defensive footing. The district around is well timbered ; so that nothing was easier than to run up wooden huts, akin to those which the natives build at the present day. These, however, offered but a poor shelter against wintry blasts, hence weather-proof dwellings were pierced in the solid rock. Three such chambers, 3 m. high, exist in the western face of the enceinte (c c), the thickness of whose walls reaches 85 centimetres. The top of the monolithic mass was levelled out, and was approached by stepped-like cuttings. This esplanade shows numerous traces of the work of man- ditches of varying shape and size, B B' B". Of these a few may have been graves ; but others are too large to have been put to such usage. Thus, between pointed saliences which towards the centre of the platform rise above the level, there occurs a rect- angular excavation 4 m. 74 c. long by i m. 70 c. wide, and 2 m. deep. Still visible about the ruins are holes that served to fix the slabs or beams closing the vault. This can only have been the store-room. A little beyond we find a circular hollow, B"', which looks like the mouth of a cistern or silo, now obstructed and nearly filled up. Another hollow, completely choked up with earth, appears at point K ; the deep incline of the soil seems to denote that this was the entrance to a subterraneous passage, hollowed under the platform. Nor should a good-sized shelf, about 40 c. high, pierced in the east wall, E, be left unnoticed. This seems to have been a fireplace, for on one side is a rounded hole clearly intended to receive a cauldron. On the exterior wall of chamber D may be read, incised in letters nine centi- metres high, the following inscription : GlC GGOC ; Efs tfeos, " There is but one God." It is universally known that this formula -examples of which VOL. I. M