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lithic, and also produce the effect of old age, as if, 

 in the lapse of centuries, they had bent beneath the 

 weight they have had to support. Another remark- 

 able feature is the pink lichen, which grows so pro- 

 fusely over the building as here and there to give to 

 it a distinct roseate tone. Lastly, from the fact of 

 the temple being of the same grey hue as the hills 

 around, one almost loses the sense of its artificiality, 

 and comes to regard it rather as a natural growth, a 

 strange and beautiful product of some geological dis- 

 turbance. 



To archaeologists this temple presents three points 

 of special interest. Firstly, it is placed north and 

 south, instead of east and west. Secondly, there are 

 traces of a doorway into the pronaos on the eastern 

 side ; and that, too, not in the middle, but nearer the 

 southern end. This most unusual opening would 

 seem to be accounted for by the desire, which the 

 Greeks shared with other nations, that the first rays 

 of the morning sun should find their way into the 

 temple, and, if possible, fall upon the statue of the 

 god. The third thing to be noticed is, that when 

 Mr Cockerell visited this temple sixty years ago, he 

 found a Corinthian capital lying among the debris 

 inside. If this really formed a part of the original 

 building, it is probably the earliest extant specimen 

 of this style of architecture, which did not come into 

 common use till late in the fourth century B.C. 



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