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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



bases and capitals, are five feet in height, and one foot three inches in depth. 

 The width of the arch at top is two feet six inches, and at bottom two feet nine 

 inches ; and the entire height from the floor to the vertex of the arch is six feet 

 three inches. The floor of this recessed arch, or sub-arch, is raised by a step 

 nine inches in height above the external one. 



Of the capitals, or impost mouldings, that 

 at the west side presents at each angle a human 

 head, with thick moustache, lank whiskers, and 

 curling, flowing beard. The hair of each head 

 is divided in the middle of the forehead; and, 

 passing over the ear, forms, by a mutual inter- 

 lacing in the intervening space, a kind of cross., 

 of highly complicated and graceful tracery. 



The capitals on the east side present a de- 

 sign, similar, but differing in some of the details, 



the whiskers of the heads being curled, and the interlacing of the hair form- 

 ing a cross, less complicated but equally graceful. 



The reveal, which divides the outer com- 

 pound archway from the inner one, is on each 

 side six inches in depth, and seven inches and 

 a quarter in breadth, and is without ornament 

 of any kind ; but the inner compound archway 

 is equally ornamented with the outer one. 

 Like the outer archway, this compartment 

 consists of two parts, or concentric arches, 

 the floors of which, like those of the outer 

 archway, rise over each other by steps nine 

 inches in height. The front arch of this di- 

 vision is four feet three inches in height, from 

 its floor to the spring of the arch, seven inches 

 in depth, and five feet six inches in height, 

 from the floor to the vertex of the arch. Its 

 width is two feet six inches at the capitals, and 

 two feet nine inches at the bases. The inner arch, or sub-arch, measures one foot 



