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stitial point ; and, secondly, that the state of the 

 heavens represented was precisely that which 

 took place at the period when the monument was 



side, the Aquarius is near the bottom, or the west, march, 

 ing towards the entrance or east, the feet turned toward 

 the wall, preceded by the Capricorn and Sagittary, both 

 marching in the same direction. The other signs are lost; 

 but it is clear that the Virgin must have marched at the 

 head of this band, on the side next the entrance. Among 

 the accessory figures of this small zodiac, must be re- 

 marked two winged Rams placed across, the one between 

 the Bull and the Twins, the other between the Scorpion 

 and Sagittary, and each nearly in the middle of its band ; 

 the second, however, a little more advanced toward the 

 entrance. 



It was at first thought, that, in the great zodiac of Esne, 

 the division of the entrance took place between the Virgin 

 and the Lion, and that of the bottom between the Fishes 

 and the Aquarius. But Mr Hamilton, and MM. de Jollois 

 and Villiers, have supposed, that, in the Sphinx, which 

 precedes the Virgin, they found a repetition of the Lion, 

 analogous to that of the Cancer in the great zodiac of Den- 

 dera; so that, according to them, the division would be at 

 the Lion. In fact, without this explanation, there would 

 only be five signs on one side, while there would be seven 

 on the other. 



With regard to the small zodiac of the north of Esne, it 

 is not known whether some emblem analogous to this 

 Sphinx may have occurred in it, because this part is de- 

 stroyed See British Review, February 1817, p- 136; and 

 Critical Letter on Zodiacomania, p. 33. 



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