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oblong blocks of marble very accurately squared and fitted to each 
other without mortar. Around the outside of the building runs 
a peristyle of its own, made up of twenty-four beautiful columns 
with Corinthian capitals. The columns are in part of Oriental 
granite and part of marble. Surmounting the entablature of this 
peristyle statues were placed immediately over each column, as 
Fig. 7. 
indicated in Adam’s restoration (fig. 7) but of these none now 
remain. 
The interior of the temple is circular (fig. 8), the immensely 
thick wall being divided into eight bays by detached columns two 
orders in height. These columns have really no work to perform 
in supporting any part of the building, but are purely ornamental. 
The roof is a dome of a very peculiar construction, the brickwork 
