Having looked around the theater, I was left wondering: lovers of antiquity will find these remains worthy of their search and curiosity. Mr. Dorville published a complete description of them and drawings in Latin; but since then a lot has disappeared, although what remains is still very interesting. I found 49 arches and 18 niches surviving, quadrangular, even in height, and symmetrically located. In the arcades themselves, water pipes are visible, through which, most likely, unclean water flowed, falling from above.
Mr. Dorville suggests that the seats for spectators were higher than the wall in which these arches are located. Bresgap fiz ashet 5irta tigit sbit ze a sayogi da Dizzoe, soo ` iyo ras rogata 5eguge royoiette t adshz from 5 ex zireg'otfiz I5 10615 gesroep:5. From this ancient naumakhsh I went to inspect the vast reservoirs, above it, to the mound. It seems to MiB that they should have belonged to the same naumakhi. I counted five of them; four of them are completely ruined; but the one who changed, remained uvl. This pond consists of two parallel tanks, or chambers, separated by eight pillars. Each tank is built on eight arches. You can still see the windows built into the heights and the hole through which water flowed from the canal into the reservoir; and from it she came out already in the form of a canal, carved into stone, and through which this container space was filled with water, for the purpose of staging battles on ships and other sailors of maneuvers. The entire reservoir is built of baked bricks, and the inside is coated with natural cement for convenient water conservation.
When I was in Taorman, they talked about some inscriptions located there in the Dfvich monastery of the Most Holy Devas March & RGaoegae; but I didn't have enough time to see them; besides, I knew that many travelers had already discovered them before me. And so, on the same day, around evening, I went to Katana. The closer we got to this city, the more beautiful the country became. Such fertility of the earth, not excluding Asia Minor, I think, cannot be seen anywhere. Night overtook us when we were 15 miles from the city, and we stopped to spend the night with a hermit. He condescendingly passed and gave me his cell. I said, by the way, that he was already acquainted with Cornilou and was friendly with him. After drinking a cup of fresh goat's milk, I went to bed; but my retinue wants to have dinner. Whether they found anything, I don’t know; As soon as everything calmed down, I didn’t see anyone until the morning. We rose to the razevftv, and, thanking the hermit, we continued on our way. Cornelius, speaking to me about the monks, often repeated: un bgave rioto; but I was not curious to know how their acquaintance began. Near Katana there should be a large, elevated field covered with fruit-bearing trees, from where the city appears quite beautiful. We drove down a wide street called Biga Etea, and I stopped at the Elephant tavern, where they gave me three large rooms, and soon they began to call it, as in Messins, Esse-1enza and /zpog Rgiura IVizzo.
Katana, like Messina, should be there. It is considered a new city because it was built again after the earthquake of 1783, which completely destroyed it. Since then, the city has been revived with some greatness, and is now as good as Mannheim or Turin. The facades of its houses are almost uniform; the streets of Liiroki are all paved with volcanic slabs; but I find that, given the low heights of the houses, these streets are too wide. They don't have the slightest protection from the sun, and it burns mercilessly.