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tiful capitals; but fo fcattered and confufed, that it is not poffi- 
ble to reduce them to any order, fo as to enable one to conjeaure 
what purpofe they anciently ferved 3 in one place are 1 1 ranged 
together in a Iquare, paved at the bottom, with broad flat rtone, 
but without any roof or covering 5 and at a little diftancc from 
that (land the ruins of a fmall temple, which by its remains feems 
to have been of curious workmanfliip ; but the roof is entirely 
gone, and the walls are very much defaced and conlumed by 
time 5 before the entry, which looks to the Ibuth, is a piazza 
lupported by 6 pillars, two on one hand of the door, and two on 
the other, and one at each end ; and the pedellals of thofe in 
the front have been filled with infcriptions, both in Greek and 
the other unknown language 5 but they are now fo obliterated 
and worn out, as not to be intelligible. 
The lepulchres there are very curious, being fquare towers 4 
or 5 Itory high, and flanding on both fides of a hollow way, to- 
wards the north part of the city ; they extend in length the fpace 
of a mile, and perhaps anciently they might ftrctch out a great 
way farther 5 they were all of the fame form, but of different 
fplendor and greatnefs, according to the circumflances of their 
founders. There were two fepulchres, which were more entire 
than the refl, tho' not without marks of the T^urkifi fury ^ they 
were two fquare towers, rather larger than ordinary fteeples, and 
5 ftory high, the outfide being of common ftone, but the parti- 
tions and floors within of gooi marble, and beautified with very 
lively carvings, paintings, and figures both of men and women, 
as far as the breads and fhoulders, but miferably defaced and ., 
broken 5 under thele ftatues or by their fides, are, in the unknown 
chara6ler, the names probably of the perfons there buried. One 
of theie monuments had a door on the fouth fide, from which 
was a walk crols the whole building juft in the middle 3 but the 
floor was broken up, and lb afforded a view of the vault below, 
divided after the lame manner ; the fpaces on each hand were 
again fubdivided into 6 partitions by thick walls; each partition 
being capable of receiving the largeft corps; and piling them one 
above another, as their way appears to have been, each of thole 
fpaces might contain at leaft 6 or -j bodies; in the loweft, fecond 
and third ftories, thele partitions were uniform, and altogether 
the fame, lave that from the fecond floor, which anlwered the 
main entry, one partition was reierved for a ftair-calc; higher 
than this, the building being fomething contrafted towards the 
top, it would not aflFord fpace for the continuation of the fame 
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