6\ JOURNEY THROUGH THE SOUTH-WESTERN QUARTER

pointed craggy rock prefents itfelf, which confifts of a darkbrown fchiftus, and proceeds dire&ly into the fea. Towardsthe continent, this cliff is covered with white calcareous layers;which, together with the laminated foffil, decline towards theNorth-weft; the whole being perforated by the waves, notunlike a gateway, fo that a boat may pafs through it withfafety. Behind fuch thoroughfare, the fchiftus becomes pro-greflively lower, and is at length loft in the fea. On the fhoreformed by more recent ftratifications of lime-ftone, exactlyabove the divided rock before mentioned, there is an evidentfoundation of another and more extenfive ftrudlure; which,in conjunction with the projecting rock, might almoft pre-ferably be applied to the paffage quuted from Strabo. Thisbuilding confifts of two fquares contiguous to the precipice ofthe fhore, forming an irregulär front; and its walls are raifedin a diredlion nearly correfponding to the four points of thecompafs. The more northern erection is an equilateral fquareof fhirty-three feet, fituated on an elevated bafe, in the form ofa hill; it appears to have had only one entrance at the fouth-weftern-corner towards the fea. Independently of its founda-tion, this edifice is on all fides provided with a row of prodi-gioufly large oblong ftones, hewn by a rüde hand. In themiddle of the fquare, though fomewhat nearer to the northernwall, there lay a cubical ftone, the Upper furface of whichwas on a level with the ibil. 1 caufed it to be raifed, andfound the earth underneath remarkably loofe. Around it,I obferved feveral flat ftones of a moderate fize placed inthe ground of an open fquare, on the northern fide; andwhich had probably ferved for fteps, while an altar, or the

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