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and a staircase to ascend to the roof or terrace, which 
is surrounded by a railing, and divided into two parts, 
one of which is dedicated to prayer for the followers 
of the rite Schaffi, and is crowned with a pretty cupo- 
la, supported by eight pilasters; the other incloses two 
large horizontal marble sun-dials, to mark the hours 
of prayer. 
A person charged with observing them, begins by 
crying out the form of the convocation from the spot 
Schaffi; and at the same instant seven mueddens or 
criers repeat it from the top of the seven minarets of 
the temple. This employment is called Monkis. 
There is a door to the staircase independent of the 
others; so that there are three in the edifice. 
The room in which is the well is seventeen feet 
three inches square; it is entirely lined and paved with 
fine marble, and is lighted by three windows to the 
west, three to the north, and two and the door to the 
east: there are three niches in the wall on the southern 
side, which separates this room from the storehouse 
of the pitchers. The outside is decorated with a small 
fagade of fine white marble. 
The number of pitchers belonging to the well is 
immense: they occupy not only the room I have spo- 
ken of, but also the two neighbouring cobbas, and 
several other magazines placed around the court of 
the temple. 
The form of these pitchers is singular: they have a 
long cylindrical throat, with a body as long as the neck, 
terminating in a point at the bottom; so that they can- 
not be placed to stand upright, unless against the wall. 
The whole length of them, for they are all alike, is, 
fifteen inches, and their greatest diameter seven inches 
six lines. They are made of unglazed earth, and so 
