The result is, perhaps, better explained to the reader in the words of an older and more experienced observer.

Carless says--"The scene was singular.

On either side of a wild broken ravine the rocks rise perpendicularly to the height of four or five hundred feet, and are excavated, as far as there is footing to ascend, up to the summit.

The excavations are most numerous along the lower part of the hills, and form distinct houses, most of which are uninjured by-time.

They consist, in general, of a room fifteen feet square, forming a kind of open verandah, with an interior chamber of the same dimensions, to which admittance is gained by a narrow doorway.