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which might exhibit the different 
forts of columns :ufed among the 
Greeks. The liberality. of the pub- 
lic perfuaded him to go on with the 
work, now his /ole property, and he 
propofed to publith it in the follow- 
ing order. ‘The prefent volume 
treats of the public monuments 
erected while the Athenians were 
a free people, and chiefly under the 
adminiftration of Pericles. 
The third volume, which is in 
great forwardnefs, will contain de- 
icriptions of thofe edifices built 
while Greece was fubjected to the 
dominion of the Romans—a period 
during which Athens, though de. 
prived of her liberty, was not yet 
deftitute of tafte and elegance. 
There is prefixed to this volume 
a ftriking refemblance of the au- 
thor, beautifully engraved by 
Knight. A landfcape view of the 
Acropolis, with Turkith figures ; 
and a plan of that citadel, of which 
he gives the following defcription, 
form the introduction ¢ 
© The Acropolis furnifhes mate- 
rials. for the principal part of the 
volume; I have therefore given a 
plan and view of it, in its prefent 
ftate. “It is built on a rock, which 
ison every fide a precipice, and 
aceeflible only at the entrance. 
The fummit is fortified by a wall, 
built on its extreme edge, encom- 
pafling the whole upper furface, 
which is nearly level. 
« ‘The natural ftrength of its 
fituation is faid to have induced-the 
firk inhabitants to fttle there; and 
when, in procefs of time, their num- 
bers increafed, they began to build 
on the adjacent ground below; till 
at length the Acropolis, being fur- 
rounded on .very fide, became the 
fortreis of a large and populous 
city. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
« It was richly adorned by the 
Athenians, in the days of their 
profperity, with temples, ftatues, 
paintings, and votive gifts to their 
divinities; but is now in a moft 
ruinous condition; though the re- 
mains of the famous Propylza, the 
little temple of Victory without 
wings, the Doric temple of Mi- 
nerva, called Parthenon and Heca- 
tompedon, and the Ionic temples of 
Erechtheus and Minerva Polias, 
with the cell of Pandrofus, are ftill 
to be feen. 3 
«Its walls have, at different 
times, been rudely repaired, or ra- 
ther rebuilt, very little of the an- 
cient mafonry remaining: nume- 
rous fragments of columns, cornices, 
nd {culptures, appear in feveral 
parts of them, which make an un- 
ccuth and ruinous appearance. 
« The Turks keep a finall gar- 
rifon here ;. and it is the refidence 
of the Difdér Aga, or governor 
of the fortrefs, as alfo of the Afap 
Aga, and other inferior officers of 
the place.” 
The firft chapter relates to the 
temple of Minerva, called Parthe- 
nos and Hecatompedon. ‘This ce- 
lebrated temple was built during . 
the adminiftration of Pericles, un- 
der the direétion of Phidias, In its 
prefent ruinous ftate, it has a ma- 
jefty, and exhibits a magnificence, 
which greatly furpaffes the expec- 
tations of men accuftomed to view 
beautiful objeéts. . This edifice was 
almoit entire laft century, when Sir 
George Wheler and Dr. Spon faw 
it, and was reduced to its prefent 
condition by an unlucky bomb dar- 
ing the fiege’ of Athens by the Ve- 
netians. ‘Ihe infide of the temple 
is divided by a crofs wall, and the 
lefier divifion into which you entex 
has been miftaken by Wheler and 
: Spon 
