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faw feveral, as I fliall have qccafion to mention fome of 
them hereafter. And as for the other GharaOrer, it be- 
ing added almoft under every Greek lofcription we faw^ 
and rarely found alone, I am apt to believe it the Na- 
tive Language and Charafler of the place, and the Matter 
it cDntains,nothing eife but v^hat we have in ^Greek. 
As foori as you are entred within the Court, you fee 
the remaiCiders of two Rows of very Noble Marble Pil- 
lars 37 Foot high, with their Capitals of moft exquifite 
R Carved Work ; as aifo muft have been the Cornilhes be- 
tween them, before by Rude and Saperftitious Hands 
they were broken down. Of thefe there are now no 
more than 58 remaining entire; but there muft have been 
a great many more, for they appear to have gone quite 
j round the whole Court, and to have fupported a moft 
fpacious double Piazza or Cloy fter. Of this Piazza the 
Walks on the Weft fide, which is oppofed to the Front 
of the Temple, feem to have exceeded the other in 
Beauty and Spacioufoefs ; and at each end thereof are 
two Niches for Statues at their full length, with their 
Pedeftals, Borders, Supporters, and Canopies, carved 
with the greateft Artifice and Curiofity. The Space 
within this once Beautiful Enclofure, which is now filled 
, with nothing but the dirty Hutti of the Inhabitants, I 
conceive to have been an open Coarr^ in the midft 
whereof ftaods the Temple, encompafs'd with another 
row of Pillars of a different Order, and much higher 
than the former, being above 50 Foot high. Of thefe 
remain nov/ but 16, but there rauft have been about 
double that Number, which whether they enclofed an 
inner Court, or fupported the Roof of a Cloyfter, there 
being nothing now of a Roof remaining, is uncertaiOo 
Only one great Stone lyes down, which feems to have 
reacht from thefe Pillars to the Walls of the Temple, . 
The whole Space contained within thefe Pillars we found 
y to be 59 Yards in Length, and in Breadth near 28. In 
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