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Part II. Tray els into the Levant. i zj-^ 
feeaX-ion devouring a Bull: which is often repeated. By the other there are 
three Ranges of Bas-reliefs, reprefenting, (as I take it,) Sacrifices i for many per- Bas-reliefs re- 
fons are there reprefented as going in Proceflion, one after another, and Armed, Pi"e(enting Sa- 
fome only with Swords and Daggers, others with Swords, Bows and Arrows, 
and others again feem to be carrying Veflels. There you fee alfo feveral kinds 
of Beafts, as Sheep, Oxen, Dromadaries, and other Animals. 
When you are at the top of thefe Stairs, you come upon a Platform, where 
there arc a great many Pillars, fome buried under Ground, and others broken, A place full 
and you only fee theBafes of moll: of them: neverthelefs, there are feventeen ftill ^ Pillars- 
ftanding, and thefe, with the others (whereof nothing but the Bafes arc to be 
feen,)make, (according to my account,) twelve Ranges, from Eafl to ff^efi; and 
from South to Nortb'm breadth conCft of nine Pillars a piece : they are about feven 
Fathom high, and at three Fathom diftance one from another, all Chamfered, 
and fome with double Capitals; they are all of an extraordinary Order, which 
yet hath great affinity to the Dorick. It appears (by what remains upon fome,) 
that all of them have fupported Statues, or perhaps. Idols i and at prefent they - 
fcrve the Storks to build their Nefts on. 
Going on Southivard from thence, 'you fee a'fquare Building, and part of the A fquare 
Walls thereof ftill ftanding. It is pierced on all fides with Doors and Windows i building much 
, which are embellifhed with many Demi-reliefs, efpecially the fides of the Doors, g^°'^°//f//'" 
which are of big greyifti flones, as the reft of the Edifice is. Upon thefe fides of ''^ ^ ' 
the Doors,the Figures are much the fame as on the reft of the Buiiding,and oppofite 
to one another ■■, there you fee an old Man followed by two Servants, one of them . 
holding in both his Hands, a great Staff, with feven branches at the end of it, 
which uphold an Umbrello, juft over the Head of his Matter: the other holds a 
Manipule in one Hand, and in the other a Crofier, or crooked Staff, liker to 
Cticket-fticks, than the Crofiers carried by Bilhops i neverthelefs, by the way 
of holding it one may judge that it is fomething refembling a Bilhops Crofier, 
for the Crook is carried up over the Mafters Head. In fome of thefe Doors there 
is but one Servant i as in the one, he only, who carries the Manipule and the Cro- 
lier, and in the others, he that holds the Umbrello. The Doors of the other two 
Faces are almoft a like, and at the fide of each Door on the infide, you fee a Man 
fighting with a Beaft, that is ereded againft him i with the Left Hand he holds a 
(hort Club over the Head of it, and with the Right fheaths a Dagger in its Belly, 
all thefe are to the natural bignefs, nay fome of them are bigger. 
Next to this Building you fee the ruins of a like Fabrick, but hardly any Buildings, 
thing fianding : on the fides of the Doors within, there are ftill to be feen two 
men, each holding a Pike, as if they Guarded thefe Doors : along the two fides of 
thefe Buildings , there is a little Walk about a Fathom and a half broad, that 
runs betwixt the Building and a Wall i at the end of this laft, (which is fo 
ruinous,) you find a double Stair- Cafe cut in the Rock, but it is almoft hid 
under the ruins, as well as the Wall betwixt the two, which fupports the Earth, 
and is full of Demi-reliefs, whereof there is no more but the Heads to be 
feen. 
A little beyond that there is fquare Terrafs, not much raifed from the Ground, A fquare Tcr- 
and fupported by a Wall which is alfo embellilhed by feveral Figures in Demi- 
relief, that are half covered under Grounds and in this place there remain many 
round Bafes : beyond that Terrafs that buts upon a large open places (which reaches 
length from IFe^ to Eafi, as far as the Hill, and fronts towards the Souths) there 
is no more now remaining i one comes down from thence by a pair of Stairs, 
which turning to, the Left, you find at the fide of the Terrafs, and are made in 
the Rock it felf, that in this place fupports the Earth. 
Returning back again to the fquare Building I mentioned, which is upon that 
Terrafs, where there are twelve ranges of Pillars of nine a piece > and from thence 
walking ftreight Ea/?, when you have gone about an hundred paces, you find ano- 
ther Buikling of the fame dimenfions, ftanding à\itdi\^ oppofite to that you came 
fromi and at the end of this Building, you find a fécond. The Figures in Demi- A Building, 
relief which are upon the fides of the Doors of thefe, and of the fame bignefs with 
the Figures on the other Doors, are not the fame as to what they reprefent. Here 
you have a Man fitting in a Chair, with a Batton in his Hand, and under his Feet 
êhree ranges of little Arches, made by Figures of a Foot height, laying their Arms 
upon 
