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'bricIiyOn tVsis foundation there is a terrace of hewn stone, five and a 

 half feet high. The conical part of the building is reduced to a fhapc- 

 lefsntafs, and the lower part only which 13 about 40 feet, is entire* 

 This contaiins two great fafii^s to the east and west, and two fraall cham«' 

 bers td the north and fouth. 



The exteriour of the fe compartments meafures, the cast and west, 

 each 4g Englifk feet wide, and the north and fouth, each 26 feet. Ly- 

 ing between thefe four faces of the buildingj are four angular double 

 fided projedions facing the intermediate points of the compafs, thus 

 giving to the whole building. 1 2 faces of various dimenfions. 



Ti3K entrance to the principal fane is <a the east, by a flight of feven 

 steps to the terrace frotn which you enter the body of the temple 

 through a porch : diredly fronting you, there is the remains of what 

 bias the appearance of a handfome altar piece, over which there is a 

 miche, which feems to have been occupied by the chief objed of wor- 

 fiiip when the temple was entire : within the porch, and on each fide 

 as you enter there are two niches for full length figures, but every 

 image has been removed from the interior of the temple. The wes- 

 tern fide diEFers from the eastern in the fmaller fize of the chamber, to 

 which there is no accefs by a porch, and it is in a state of much dilapi- 

 dation. The entrance into the northern and fouthern chambers is 

 through a mean door, and direftly by a flight of steps of the fame 

 hewn stone as the rest of the building. Thefe are dark prifon like 

 apartments, and have by a minute aperture a communication with 

 the great eastern fane. They had each contained an image, the pedes- 

 tals of which are still standing. In various parts of the outfide of the 

 building, no Icfs than 12 great niches may be counted. At the entabla- 

 ture and cornicingj which terminate the fquarc fhaped portion of the 



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