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the bowels of the mountain like a burrow, and receiving the: 
light from the doors. Perhaps you would rather call this a 
vault than a portico: it is nine palms three-fourths in breadth, 
and twelve in heighth. At each extremity of the theatre there 
are many remains of buildings that have yielded to the in- 
juries of time, but which fufficiently teftify the greatnefs of 
the work; in thefe various vaults are feen, part in ruins, part 
entire, which fuftained the covering of the fcena. 
“ Tue various benches of this theatre (allowing a palm and 
a half to each perfon, and omitting the ftairs for afcending and 
defcending) contained feven thoufand four hundred and twenty- 
fix perfons: befides which we muft add thofe who fat in the 
upper bench above the portico, and brought feats, or leaned 
againft the wall, amounting, as I judge, to about one thoufand, 
and thofe of the more diftinguifhed order in the orcheftra, the 
compafs of which feems to allow for fix hundred feats. Thefe 
altogether make nine thoufand and twenty-fix. 
“ In the front of the theatre lie the profcenium, pulpitum 
and fcena. The profcenium is that {pace extended before the 
fcena, whereon was ereéted the pulpitum on which the actors 
appeared. 
_  Notuine remains of our pulpitum except the foundation of 
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the wall diftant from the orcheftra about twelve palms, which 
wall, according to-rule, ought to be only five feet or fix palms. 
two-thirds high, that thofe who were in the orcheftra might fee 
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