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feet broad, but a precindtio of three feet high feparates this clafs 
of benches from the next fix, which have their diftinét communi- 
cations by the corridors, @ 3, a4 4, and through the vomitoria, ¢ 1, 
62, 63,45) 65; eh; to thé fixth bench. A double precinctio 
feparates this clafs of benches from the next immediately above, 
which feem to be appropriated to the great body of the people, 
and which confift of ten benches only, and not of twelve as de- 
fcribed by Dean Marti. 
Tuese benches as well as thofe of the other orders are nearly 
two fect fix inches in breadth, and one foot fix inches in height, 
except that next the precinétio, which is a little higher than the 
reft, and the uppermoft, which is only one foot fix inches in 
breadth. 
I oBsERVED a particularity which is not taken notice of by the 
the Dean. On the top of the principal precin@tio there are 
feveral grooves cut in the ftone, of about one foot fix inches 
broad, placed two and two, at two feet afunder, and alternately 
between the vomitoria. This fingularity furprized me; they do 
not appear large enough to fupport the bafes for ftatues, and had 
they been imtended for other ornaments, or for fupporting rails, 
they would probably have been placed at leffer intervals. Might 
they not then be deftined to receive the vafes, mentioned by 
Vitruvius*, as neceflary for increafing the found of the voice, 
[E] and 
* Si non erit ampla magnitudine theatrum, media altitudinis tranfverfa regio 
defignetur. Lib. 5. Cap. 5. 
