8 NARRATIVE OF A JOüRi^Y 



other, frequentlv with channels running through 



them — most of these biocks are plain^ and tum- 



bled together in inextricable confusion. — 



Among these no sculptures are seen ; it is prob- 



able they only belonged to the Gatewajs^ which 



are no longer traced^ except bj greater ruinSj or 



in the casing of the Terapies. — In the Angle of 



the inclosure, particularly the N. W. near a 



great tree^ are the rains and scite of a smaller 



buildings distingiiished bv its foundation or base ; 



and aiso the base of a smaller building, perhaps 



a choultry» in the liindoo stile; the whole 



breadth of the Western part is taken up by the 



three great pyramids, which ï take to be now in 



these ruins from fifty to sixty or seventy feet high ; 



to the right of these, as we cross the inclosure from 



South io North, are three others, smaller origi- 



nally, as is evident by the ruins of the most 



Southerly, which preserves, more of its original 



form, or is less buried in stones ; for it is to be 



observedj that none of that rubbish found in other 



buildings, and composed of bricks, earth, smaller 



stones or other materials used to fill up, is here 



to be met with ; the whole appearing to have 



consisted of biocks of stone, fitted to each other 



and not yielding to time, Further to the West 



are smaller Teroples, into two of which I looked 



