Chapter 21

Before we left the rampart we photographed it carefully, and studied its mortarless Cyclopean masonry with complete bewilderment. We wished that Pabodie were present, for his engineering knowledge might have helped us guess how such titanic blocks could have been handled in that unbelievably remote age when the city and its outskirts were built up. * * * * * The half-mile walk downhill to the actual city, with the upper wind shrieking vainly and savagely through the skyward peaks in the back…