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footfteps of Chriftianity here. Others took 

 them to have been Baftions, and part of the 

 Old Fortifications, tho' there is not fomuch as 

 any Foundation of a Wall to be feen. But 

 when we came a Day or two after, more curi- 

 oufly to enquire into them, we quickly found 

 their ufe. They were all of the* fame Form, 

 but of different Splendor and Greatnefs, ac- 

 cording to the Circumftances of their Foun- 

 ders. The firft we viewed was entirely Mar- 

 ble ; but is now wholly in Ruins, and nothing 

 but a heap of broken Stones, among which 

 we found the pieces of two Statues, one of 

 a Man, and another of a Woman, cut in a 

 fitting, or rather leaning pofture ^ and the 

 Heads and part of the Arms of both being 

 broken off^, but their Bodies remaining pret- 

 ty entire ^ fb that we had the Advantage of 

 feeing their Habits, which appeared very 

 Noble, but more approaching the Ewofeari 

 Fafliion, than what is now in ufe in the Eaft ; 

 which inclined me to believe they might be 

 Romans. Upon broken pieces of Stone tum^ 

 bled here and there, we found fomeas broken 

 Infcriptions , but not affording any perfed 

 Senfe, they are not worth the Traafcribing. 



Many other Sepulchers there were, as 

 much gone to decay as this, which therefore 

 we paft by, to go to two, which ftood almofl: 

 oppofite to one another, and feemed molt 

 perfed of any, though not without marks of 

 the Turkijh Malice. They are two Iquare 

 Towers, rather larger than ordinary Steeples, 

 and five Stories high, the outfide being of 

 .common Stone, bat the Partitions and Floors 

 within of good Marble ^ and beaupfied too 



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