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A RECENT VISIT TO THE DALMATIAN COAST. 
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what a cost as regards the priceless treasures of antiquity can well 
be imagined. 
The Golden Gate itself has suffered very much from the ravages 
of time, even during the last hundred years or so, as is very 
evident on comparing recent photographs with the engraving 
made by Adam in 1763 (fig. 2). One of the most important 
features of the adornment of this gate is the use which has been 
made of small columns resting on carved corbels, and supporting 
arches above, thus forming a miniature arcading, an architectural 
ornament of which this is the first known instance, and which was 
destined to be used so very largely in Romanesque and Gothic 
work. 
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The entrance of the Gate is divided from the semi-circular 
opening above it by a straight piece (fig. 3) of lintel-like masonry, 
which, nevertheless, from its construction we must call an arch. 
The voussoirs of this perfectly flat arch are cut in a curious zig-zag 
form, and are thus made to fulfil all the mechanical requirements 
of the components of an ordinary arch. 
Fig. 4 is a photograph of the portico of the vestibule, which, as 
far as the exterior is concerned, is almost untouched. The dome 
