I Sam, 15-. 12. Ocherwift it may appear no improbable 
Conjefture, that the Pillar was erefted long before.upon 
Tome other Occafion, and afterwards made ufe of to 
this end: And I look upon it as paft all doubt that fe- 
veral other Infcriptions which we faw, were much more 
Modern than the Pillars on which they ^ were engra- 
ved. 
Proceeding forward, dire£lly from the Olelhk^ about The PI- 
100 Paces, you come to a Magnificent Entrance, v^aftly ^^^a» 
large and lofty, and for the exquifitenefs of the Work- 
manfhip not inferiour to any thing before defcribed. I 
wifli I could add, that it had not luffered the (ame Fate 
as the reft, and then we might have ften a rare Piece 
of the Ancient Beauty of the place. This Entrance leads 
you into a Noble Piazza of more than half a Mile long, 
938 Yards according to, our Meafuring, and 40 Foot in 
breadth, enclofed with two rows of fiately Marble Pil- 
lars, 2(5 Foot high, and 8 or 9 about. Of thefe re- 
main ftanding and entire 129; -but by a moderate Cal- 
culate there could not have been lefs at firft than 560, 
Covering there is none remaining, nor any Pavement 
at the bottom, unlefs it be buried under theRubbiflj. 
But upon almoft all the Pillars we found Infcriptions, 
both in Greek and the Language unknown, of which we 
had time to take but very few, and thofe not very In- 
ftrudive. But fuch as they are Til prefent you them 
here, without obferving any other Order, but as they 
happened to be tranfcribed. 
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. I give - 
