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Ihe southern port is much larger, and protected from the sea by a mole of large, rough-hewn stone, which still remains.

CNIDUS .

Beyond the ports, to the west, the city rose on a hill, the form of which Strabo com-pares to a theatre, bounded from the mole, on the south, by rocky precipices, and on thenorth by the walls, which descended from the ridge to the gates of the northern harbour, ina semicircular sweep. On this side of the city are still many foundations of ancient housesto be traced, but no buildings of marble. The entire circuit of the walls is about 3 miles,including the two ports within them.

Halicarnassus , now the port of Boudroun or Budrun. Its entrance is from the south-

ing. 59.

HALICARNASSUS.

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