by a glance at the accompanying plan. The kopje
itself is of great natural strength, being protected on
one side by gigantic granite boulders, and on the
south by a precipice from seventy to ninety feet in
height, and on the only accessible side the ancient
inhabitants constructed a wall of massive thickness,
like those of the ruins below. This wall is thirteen
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feet thick oil the summit, with a batter of one foot
in six; it is thirty feet high in parts, and the flat
causeway on the top was decorated on the outside
edge by a succession of small round towers alternating
with tall monoliths ; seven round towers in all we
made out, about three feet in diameter, and several
others had been destroyed by the fall.of a portion of
the wall. This system of round towers and monoliths
