ROUND TOWERS OF THE CYCLADES.
On Friday evening, Nov. 19, 1852, a lecture was delivered before the members of the Literary and Scientific Institute of this island, by Capt. Graves, R.N., from which I have been permitted to take the following extract. The information contained in it, will doubtless be the more interesting to many of the reader of "N. & Q.," when informed that the round towers of Greece are fast disappearing; either from being pulled down for the erection of dwellings, or to be burnt into lime, by the Greeks who dwell in their neighbourhood. What the original dimensions of these towers may have been in ancient times, or for what purposes they were erected, are alike unknown; but their present proportions are as follow, and drawn by the learned lecturer from personal observation:
| Feet. | In. | ||||
| "A. | Andros, near the port | Height | 60 | 0 | |
| B. | Zea overlooking Perses Bay |
| Height | 5 | 5 |
| Diameter | 26 | 6 | |||
| Wall | 2 | 0 | |||
| C. | Thermia |
| Height | 11 | 0 |
| Diameter | 28 | 5 | |||
| D. | Serpho |
| Height | 15 | 0 |
| Diameter | 27 | 0 | |||
| E. | Beach of Port Pharos |
| Height | 7 | 0 |
| Diameter | 31 | 8 | |||
| Wall | 2 | 6 | |||
| F. | Hillock, west side of Pharos |
| Height | 16 | 6 |
| Diameter | 42 | 10 | |||
| Wall | 3 | 0 | |||
| G. | Village of Herampili |
| Height | 15 | 8 |
| Diameter | 38 | 3 | |||
| Wall | 4 to 2 | 6 | |||
| H. | Valley beyond villages |
| Height | 11 | 10 |
| Diameter | 33 | 5 | |||
| Wall | 4 | 0 | |||
| J. | Short distance west of Mount Elias |
| Height | 6 | 0 |
| Diameter | 24 | 7 | |||
| Wall | 5 | 0 | |||
| K. | Between Elias and west coast |
| Height | 6 | 6 |
| Diameter | 28 | 0 | |||
| Wall | 4 | 0 | |||
| L. | Naxos, south-east end of the island | Height | 50 | 0 | |
| M. | Paros, north, port Naussa. Of this tower only a few courses of the stones are left. It is however supposed to have been of the same dimensions as that of Naxos." | ||||
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