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ages, have been derived from the same source, each of 
them occasionally exhibiting traces of the same prin- 
ciples, and even the peculiar ornaments, which belong 
to the Greek style ; still in this case we have evidence 
of a servile copy, not of the order itself, but of a 
fanciful deviation from the order ; and this an isolated 
instance. It would be beyond my depth, as much 
as it would he foreign to the province of this volume, 
to enter upon a scientific discussion upon this intri- 
cate subject, hut I could not pass the circumstance 
without remark. 
The ruins in the foreground of the sketch are 
the remains of a Serai , or public place of rest for 
travellers, evidently of a style very superior to the 
generality of these buildings. They usually form a 
quadrangle with a large arched gateway, surmounted 
with a tower or apartments for the dewan (door- 
keeper), and each of the small arches around the 
square forms a lodging for the way-farer, which he 
occupies at his own pleasure rent-free, paying only 
a trifle to the sweeper. They are usually erected 
and endowed by religious or humane men of rank 
and wealth for the accommodation of pilgrims, as a 
peace offering to the gods ; but they seldom rival in 
magnificence the mosques and tombs. The one in 
question must have been superior, both in size and 
decoration, to any thing of the same kind which I 
have seen entire, many parts of it bearing evidence 
