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and confequently a»«:Ca/r6<» and x*TOCccjve<y are very applicable to 

 Struftures in fuch a Situation. 



The Eaftern Method of buildins; may further aifift us. 'mTbeTcmpie 



of Dagon. 



accounting for the particular Stru6ture of the Houfe of 'Dagon, 

 {Judg.i-e) and the great Nurnbers of People that were buried 

 in the Ruins of It, by pulling down the two principal Pillars. 

 We read ( Ver. 17. ) that about three thoujand Terjons were 

 up07t the Roof to behold while Sampfon made Jport. Sampfon 

 muft therefore have been in a Court or ^rea below them, and 

 confequently the Temple will be of the fame Kind with the 

 antient Tei^'n or facred Enclofures, furrounded only in Part or 

 altogether with fome cloyftered Building. Several Palaces and 

 'Dou-wanas, as they call the Courts of Juftice in thefe Coun-niF^y;./»^ 

 tries, are built in this Faihion; where, upon their Feftivals, 

 a great Quantity of Sand is ftrewed upon the ^rea for the 

 (!P6'//<7-7i/^;^) Wreftlers to fall upon, whilft the Roof of the Cloy- 

 iters, round about, are crowded with Spedators. I have often 

 feen feveral Hundreds of People diverted in this Manner upon 

 the Roof of the Defs Palace at Algiers ; which, like many 

 more of the fame Quality and Denomination, hath an advanced 

 Cloyfter, made in the Faihion of a large Pent-Houfe, fupport- 

 ed only by one or two contiguous Pillars in the Front, or elfe 

 in the Centre. In fuch open Struftures as thefe, in the Midft 

 of their Guards and Counfellors, are the Βαβα5, Kadees, and 

 other great Officers aifembled to diftribute Juftice and tranfaot 

 the publick Affairs of their Provinces. Here likewife they have 

 their publick Entertainments, as the Lords and others of the 

 Thiliftines had in the Houfe of Dagon. Upon a Suppolition 

 therefore that in the Houfe of Dagon, there was a cloyftered 

 Structure of this Kind, the pulling down the Front or Centre 

 Pillars only which fupported it, would be attended with the 

 like Cataflrophe that happened to the Thiliflines. 



The Mofques and Sepulchres of thefe Countries, are other ^''^^f^-A•''^ 

 Strudures, which ftill remain undefcribed. The firft> which Mofques. 

 they pronounce [0•=?"*" '^Mejg-jidy are built exadly in the Faftiion 

 of our Churches, where inftead of fuch Seats and Benches as 

 we make ufe of, they only ftrew the Floor with Mats, upon 



I i. c. The Place of Hum'il'ut'ion, from (S^"^, [Heb. IJDj Humiliavit fe, procubuit: pec, 

 Revcrentise ergo. fpec. froncem imponens terrs, ad comnionftrandam fupplicis animi de- 

 jedionem atquc abncgatioiiem I'ui. Vid. Gol. in voce. 



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