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at firft View reprefents. Certainly the World it 

 felf cannot afford the like mixture of Remains 

 of the greateft State and Magnificence, to- 

 gether with the Extremity of Filth and Po- 

 verty. The neareft Parallel I can think of, 

 is that of the Temple of Baal^ deftroyed by 

 Jehu^ and converted into a Draught-Houfe, 

 2 Kings 10. 27. And if, what is not improba- 

 Me, this very Place was a Temple of Jupter 

 Bdtis^ the Similitude will run upon all Four. 



Being thus lodged within the 

 Place, I lhall begin with a Def- The Tern- 

 cription thereof, and proceed to pie. 

 what I obferved remarkable with- 

 out. The whole incloied Space is a Square 

 of 200 Yard each iide, encompafs'd with a 



- high and ftately Wall, built of large fquare 

 Stone, and adorned with Pilafters within 

 and without, to the number, (as near as we 

 could compute by what is {landing of the 

 Wall, which is much the greater part) of 6z 

 on a fide. And had not the Barbarity of the 

 Turks^ Enemies to every thing that is fplendid 

 and noble, out of a vain Superftition, pur- 

 pofely beat down thofe beautiful Cornilhes 

 both here and in other Places, we had feea 

 the moft curious and exquifite Carvings in 

 Stone which perhaps the World could ever 

 boaft of ; as here and there a fmall Remain- 

 der, "vvhich. has efcap'd their Fury, does a« 

 bundantly evidence. The Weft fide, whereia 

 is the Entrance, is moft of it broken down, 

 and near the middle of the Square, another 

 higher Wall erefted out of the Ruins j which 

 fliews to have been a Caftle, ftrong but rude ; 

 |he old Stones and many Pillars broken or 



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