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and convey thefe Mens Names to After-* 

 Ages, without particulari:ziiig what they did 

 to dfeferve that Honour, is fomething ftrange : 

 iinlefs we may fuppofe it Was a prevailing 

 Vanity in thefe Eaftern Countries thus to en- 

 deavoui* to Eterniie their I^ame. An In- 

 ftance whereof We have in Scripture, in Ab-^ 

 falomh fetting him up a Pillar, 2 Kings 18. 18. 

 and perhaps before him, in Saul^ i St^m. 15. 

 S2. Otherwife it may appear no improbable 

 Conjedure, that the Pillar was erefted long 

 l^efore upon fbme other pecallon, and after- 

 wards made ufe of to this end : And I look 

 upon it as paft all doubt that feveral other 

 Infcriptions which we favy, \Vere much more 

 Modern than the Pillars, on which they were 

 engraved. 



'Proceeding forward, difedly from 

 the Obelisk, about 100 Paces, you The Pl- 

 come to a Magnificent Entrance, azza. 

 vaftly large and lofty, and for the 

 exquilitenefs of the Workmanfliip not inferi- 

 or to any thing before defcribed. I wifli I 

 could add, that it had not fufFered the fame 

 Fate as the reft, and then we might have feeii 

 a rare Piece of the Ancient Beauty of the 

 Place, This Entrance leads you into a No- 

 *ble Piazza of more than half a Mile long, 

 938 Yards according to our Meafuring, and 

 40 Foot in breadth, enclofed with two rows 

 of ftately Marble Pillars, 16 Foot high, and 

 8 or 9 about. Of thefe remain ftanding and 

 entire 129. but by a moderate Calculate 

 there could not have been lefs at firftthaa 

 5<*>o* Covering there is none remaining, nor 

 anjc Pavement at the bottom, unlefs it be bu- 



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