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cognized on the east side, where an excellent view of it may be obtained in the great north-eastern trench (S S). It consists of a substruction, more or less deep, of unwrought calcareous stones, on which was erected the wall proper of bricks. The manner in which the latter was made is especially remarkable. Visitors may best realize the following description by comparing it with the above-mentioned tower G M. The sketch No. 16, on p. 60, gives a section of this tower, which is about 3.50 m. broad, and projects about 2 mètres from the wall.

The foundations of the wall and the tower are only from 1 m. to 1.50 m. deep, and consist of calcareous stones, which are on an average 0.25 m. long and broad, and are bonded with clay. On this substruction was erected the wall proper of sun-dried clay bricks, with which material straw was mixed abundantly. The bricks are on an average 0.09 m. high by 0.23 m. broad; their length could not well be ascertained, as it is exceedingly difficult to recognize the joints, but it is probably 0.45 m. A very fine light-coloured clay, mixed with straw or hay, has been used as cement, and has been put on from 0,010 mm. to 0,015 mm.^[1] deep in the horizontal joints as well as in the vertical ones. We find in the bricks numerous small fragments of pottery and masses of small shells, which prove that the clay has not been cleaned, but that it was used for brickmaking just as it was found.

In order to render this wall of sun-dried bricks more solid, it was artificially baked, when in situ, by a great fire kindled on its west side. The same could not be done on its east side, on account of the abrupt slope. On account of its considerable thickness, the wall could not have been baked through by the fire, for the heat could not have