TO EXAMINE THE REMAINS, i&C. 31 



on one knee, leaning the right arm on a short 

 thick mail or club, round the left a Serpent 

 winded or clung — its position rather leaning 

 forward and inclining to the left; while its 

 companion, which we immediately after found, 

 leaned forward inclining to the right— both the§e 

 figuresseemed bjtheir countenance^ position and 

 half inclined, half forward expression and 

 gesture, leaning on their clubs, to be watching 

 with assiduity the approach of any profane foot to 

 the Temple; which we immediately after found 

 behind them, and towards the road, but I must 

 Bot omit that these four figures differed frora 

 the former in having no coronet or other orna- 

 ment around their head; the curled hair waa 

 loose, neatly parted on the forehead ; be- 

 hind it flowed down over the neck into three 

 rows of curls carefully arranged, and very much 

 resembling those in which the Persian Monarchs 

 and figures are represented in the Persepolitaa 

 aatiquities. 



It may also be observed here that the counte- 

 nance of these figures rather inclined to the Eu- 

 ropean, withanaquiline nose, and more regular 

 features, than the Negro-staring visages of the 

 Northern Teraple, 



