Later, they came upon yet another city. From here, a day’s march of eighteen miles brought them to a large undefended fortification near a city called Mespila. . . . The base of the fortification was made of polished stone, in which there were many shells. It was fifty feet broad and fifty feet high. On top of it was built a brick wall fifty feet in breadth and a hundred feet high. The perimeter of the fortification was eighteen miles.
