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ty feet square^ occupies the whole body of the 

 Temple, nor (^id it appear to have any of the 

 smaller apartments that in the rest are detached 

 froni the sides. 



25. — The aperfares or Windows did not 

 however lye on thefloor^ for Ihough the whtile of 

 it is covered with heaps of stones that have fallen 

 fiom the inward coating, I could just perceive 

 close below the Sonth and North apertures the 

 top of an Arched Door, which I apprehend must 

 have led fiom below to the actual flooring.^ — 

 Above these Windows the vault springs up al eight 

 feet above the bottom origiaally composed of 

 regular row§ of stones, laid one over the other 

 andprojecting tiil they reach the top, allowing 

 thirty feet for thirty stones ; so tliat the height 

 of tliis Pyiamidal vault within is near forty feet 

 exclusive of the height from the original floor — 

 the walls were twelve feetthick at the apertures. 

 Great part of the inner coating of the Temple 

 having tumbied in and laying heaped on 

 the floor, the interior structure of the ma- 

 sonry is disclosed, and shews that no ce- 

 ment wliatever was used, the stones having 

 been cut and fitted to each other, proba- 

 hly in the quarry — As they are at present^ they 



