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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



It has three stories or ranges, and in the centre is a 

 grand staircase thirty-two feet wide, rising to the 

 platform of the highest terrace. This staircase, 

 however, is in a ruinous condition, and, in fact, a 

 mere mound, and all that part of the building on the 

 right had fallen, and was so dilapidated that no in- 

 telhgible drawing could be made of it ; we did not 

 even clear away the trees. The engraving repre- 

 sents all that part which remains, being the half of 

 the building on the left of the staircase. 



The lowest of the three ranges is two hundred 

 and sixty- five feet in front and one hundred and 

 twenty in depth. It had sixteen doorways, opening 

 into apartments of two chambers each. The whole 

 front wall has fallen ; the interiors are filled with 

 fragments and rubbish, and the ground in front was 

 so encumbered with the branches of fallen trees, even 

 after they had been chopped into pieces and beaten 

 down with poles, that, at the distance necessary for 

 making a drawing, but a small portion of the inte- 

 rior could be seen. The two ends of this range 

 have each six doorw^ays, and the rear has ten, all 

 opening into apartments, but in general they are in 

 a ruinous condition. 



The range of buildings on the second terrace was 

 two hundred and twenty feet in length and sixty 

 feet in depth, and had four doorways on each side 

 of the grand staircase. Those on the left, which 

 are all that remain, have two columns in each door- 

 way, each column being six feet six inches high, 



