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and is, therefore, 101 mètres higher than the village. The temperature of the air on the 2nd of July, both in the village and on the summit of the hill was 36° C. (96.8 F.) When in the beginning of the present century Dr. Clarke visited this hill, it was still covered with ruins of ancient edifices, though these building materials had then already for a long time past been the great quarry for Beiramich, where a mosque, the tomb of a Dervish, a bridge with three arches, and many large houses, had been built with them.^[1] All the ruins which could be used for building purposes had disappeared when P. Barker Webb visited the hill in 1819.^[2] Nevertheless, ancient remains may still be seen in many places. The first object which strikes the eye of the archaeologist is the ruin of the great wall, which is 2.80 m. thick, and of the same kind of masonry as the walls of Assos, for it has on both sides wedgelike blocks, between which, as well as in the interior, the space is filled up with small stones. On the summit are the foundations of a chamber, 3 m. long by 1.80 m. broad, the walls being 0.60 m. thick; but outside of it are large rudely-wrought blocks, between which and the foundations of the chamber the space is filled up with small stones. The position of the large blocks seems to indicate that the building had an oval form, and it may probably, therefore, have been a tower. In excavating this chamber, I found it to have an accumulation of débris only 0.30 m. deep. To the north-west of it is a spacious hollow in the rock, which perhaps marks the site of a large edifice, but here I struck the rock at a depth only from 0.15 m. to 0.20 m. To the north of this hollow are the foundation walls, 0.50 m. thick, of another edifice, which is 18 m. long by 11 broad. To the north-west of it are some remains of a smaller building; and again to the north of the latter, on a terrace about 12 m. below the summit, some ruins of larger