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Under tliis was the unknown character, which being added al- 
ttioft to every Greek inicription, makes it probable that it was 
the native language and character of the place, and its lubje(3: the 
fame with what we have in Greek 3 the letters betwe:^n thefe [ ] 
marks were not legible, nor was the E in M N El ON upon 
the ftone, being ioubtlefs omitted by miflake j ^"d the inicrip- 
tion is nothing other than that of a fepulchre. 
As loon as you are entred within the court, you fee the remains 
ef two rows of very noble marble pillars, 5 7 foot high, with 
their capitals of moft exquifite carved work 5 of thefe only 58 
remain mtire, but there muft have been a great many more, for 
they appear to have gone quite round the whole court, and to 
have fupported a very fpacious double piazza or cloifter. The 
walks on the weft fide of this piazza, which is oppofite to the 
front of the temple, feem to have exceeded the other in beauty 
and fpacioufnels 5 and at each end thereof are two niches for fta- 
tues at their full length, with their pedeftals, borders, lupporters 
and canopies, carved with the greateft art and curiolity. The 
fpace within this once beautiful enclofure, which is now filled 
with nothing but the dirty huts of the inhabitants, feems to have 
been an open court, in the middle whereof ftands the temple, en- 
■compafled with another row of pillars of a different order, and 
much taller than the former, being about 50 foot high 3 of which 
only 16 remain. The whole fpace, contained within thefe pillars, 
was 59 yards in length and nearly 28 in breadth 5 in the middle 
of which fpace is the temple, extending in length more than 3 5 
yards, and in breadth 1 3 or 14. It points north and fouth, with 
a moft magnificent entry on the weft, exadly in the middle of the 
building, which, by the fmall remains thereof, feems to have been 
one of the moft glorious ftrudtures in the world ; never were vines 
and clufters of grapes cut in ftone in lo bold, lb lively and ib natu- 
ral a manner j juft over the door, one may dilcern part of the wings 
of a large fpread-eagle, extending its whole width ^ whofe largeneis 
at firft made Mr. Halifax imagine it might have been rather a 
cherub overfhadowing the entry, there being nothing of the body 
remaining to guide one's judgment 3 and fome little angels or cu- 
pids appear ftill in the corners of the fame ftone 3 but afterwards, 
feeing other eagles on ftones that were fallen down, he concluded 
this muft have been one likewile, only of a much larger fize. 
Of this temple only the outward walls remain Handing, in which, 
it is oblervable, that as the windows were not large, io they were 
made narrower towards the top than they were below, but all 
adorned with excellent carvings. Within the walb, the ^urks 
