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[[underline]] Chapter XI. [[/underline]] 229-a.

than we had time to trace it that afternoon on foot.  In it we found a gap which we believed most probably represented a former city-gate, though without actual excavation we could not be sure; for all these remains were mere shapeless, much eroded, and worn-down heaps of earth, looking much like natural mounds.
Scattered about over the site and to a depth of a foot or more beneath its surface we found also literally countless potsherds, simi-