text:  They say the Roman fleet was supplied with water from this huge tank; but if this had been the intention of its construction why obstruct it with more pillars or supports of square masonry than the roof absolutely required without which incumbrances a reservoir of half its size would have held more water --and for water it was evidently meant? Ascending the hill we see a man or two working away at a newly-discovered _tomb_ from which he told us he had removed several skulls in perfect preservation even to the teeth of both jaws together with some small sepulchral lamps and old copper coins