Whether the inhabitants of the first city quietly abandoned their homes and emigrated, or whether their city was captured and destroyed by an enemy, we are unable to discover from the ruins; at all events, the first town was not destroyed by fire, for I found no marks of a general, or even of a partial, conflagration. It is further quite certain that the first settlers were succeeded by a different people: this is proved by the architecture as well as by the pottery, both of which are totally different from what we see in the first city.

I have already said that these second settlers built both their houses and their walls of large stones. The remains we now see of these dwellings are, of course, only the substructions, but the really enormous masses of loose stones contained in the strata of this second city testify to the fact, that the walls of the houses were built of stone. Not all the houses, however, were built of this material, for we see here and there the débris of houses which must have had walls of clay.

It is only to these second settlers that we can attribute the wall B represented in the engraving No. 2 (see p. 24), which I brought to light on the north side of the hill.