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have a little attic pedestal, others a false base, and 
some even, by an extravagant whim of the architect, a 
Corinthian capital reversed. 
The arches that front the court are all crowned with 
little conical cupolas; but the interior ones have only 
low spherical vaults. 
The four fronts of the court are surmounted also 
with stone ornaments, that very much resemble fleurs- 
de-lys. 
All the galleries are paved like the ways, with hewn 
stones of quartz rock, with schorl and mica, which 
abound in the country. The walls of the temple are 
also built of it. 
The eastern angle of the temple is cut or rounded 
off, to conform to the line of the principal street; so 
that the gallery within is so narrow at that angle, that 
there hardly remains space enough to pass between 
the wall and the column, at the angle of the court. 
In the south-eastern gallery, from the door SafFa to' 
that of Zeliha, there is a fourth row of arches, in the 
disposition of which there is also some irregularity. 
The Kaaba, Beit Allah, or House of God, is not 
situated exactly in the centre of the court. The north- 
east front is distant two hundred and seventy-five feet 
six inches from the corresponding side of the court; 
the south-east one hundred and fifty-five feet six 
inches; that of the south-west two hundred and twenty- 
nine feet three inches; and the north-west one hundred 
and sixty-two feet. 
There is a small court also surrounded with arches, 
in which is the door of Ibrahim, situated upon the 
south-west side of the great court, and another exactly 
alike at the north-west side, in which are the doors 
Koutoubia and Ziada, 
