403 



>aTts absoluttly plain, which in so it. any builJlug? 

 are covered nitii ointunents. 



But in order to giye such a relief as may accord 

 with highly finished sculptural ornaments, the 

 mere absence of enrichment is not all that is re- 

 quired : the unenrioli^d parts must not only be 

 plain, but of an even surface and colour; and the 

 rou!-hness as well as dinginess of tiio I'lburtine stone 

 so ill accords with them, that if no ren)ains of the 

 stucco had been found, ii might very reasonably 

 have been conjectured that some covering must 

 kive been cujployed, and the circumstance I am 

 going to mention would very much have slrength- 

 ened°such a conjecture. The walls of the cnru- 

 lar cell or tower are built of rubble, or small 

 irregular stones roughly pui together ; and it is 

 quite incredible that such a coarse piece of work, 

 could have been suffered to appear amidst stately 

 columns, and all the splendour of ornament ; and 

 if that was covered, it is extremely improbable 

 that the rough dingy stone, though in larger 

 masses^ and more carefully and regaiarly worked, 

 should have been left uncovered in odier parts. 



Attain, the manner i.i which these walls were 

 built^ susgesf^ another rHlection. Mr. Knight, 

 in speaking of the temple, has laid particular 

 stress on " the compact rirnmess of its construc- 

 tion, which nothing but some convulsion of na- 

 tuio, or the mischievous exertions ol man, could 

 have destroyed:" and now it appears that the 

 most massive part of it, described by him as " a 



D D 



o. 



