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Very satisfactory manner for what otherwise seem- 

 ed almost unaccountable, and shews why in so 

 highly wrought an edifice, the builder employed 

 without scruple, any hard material that was 

 nearest at hand. 



The difference between Mr. Knight and me on 

 this point is singular enough : I guessed, and hap- 

 pened to be right, that the general surface of the 

 temple must have been smooth, and the colour 

 clear : and thence falsely concluded, that such 

 also w r as the quality of the stone. He, on the 

 Other hand, knew that the stone must always 

 have been rough and dingy, and thence, as falsely 

 concluded, that such likewise must have been the 

 appearance of the temple. Total ignorance, is 

 sometimes more lucky than half knowledge. 



In the passage relative to the quality of the 

 stone, which I lately quoted from the Analytical 

 Inquiry, I purposely omitted some words, from 

 being doubtful of their exact meaning and extent : 

 the words are " so far from being smooth, it is 

 all over rough with sculpture." full forty years 

 are gone by, since I saw the temple itself; and it 

 too plainly appears, that either my observation at 

 the time, or my recollection since were very de- 

 fective : but as far as I can now judge from prints 

 and drawings, the sculpture is in the usual places > 

 and not in greater quantity than is common in 

 buildings of the same order and character : if this 

 be so, " all over rough with sculpture," it is surely 

 a very exaggerated expression, made use of for a 

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