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{freaked with blue or greyifh veins. At the distance 
of feet further, in the center of the faid court, 
flood the temple properly fo called, containing a 
circular area of 54 feet diameter, and elevated above 
the level of the pavement, fo as to admit an afcent 
to it of five fleps (8), in four different parts anfwer- 
ing to the four fides of the corridor. This area is 
furrounded with fixteen pedeftals, on which formerly 
were columns to fupport a rotundo or dome. Againfl: 
each of thefe columns, on the outfide, there teems 
to have been placed a flatue, and, in the interme- 
diate fpaces, vafes for incenfe, or lavers for wafhing, 
upon low flands on the floor. In the middle of the 
temple was eretted the grand altar, the traces of 
which {fill remain, with a fink or drain near it to 
receive and carry off the blood of the vi< 5 lims, &c. 
Northward of the temple, and at the diflance 
of 25 feet, being the lame fpace, that was be- 
tween it and the corridor at the entrance, was once 
another {lately veflibule or pavilion, fupported by 
four columns four feet and an half in diameter, and 
of the Corinthian order, as appears by three of them, 
which Hill fubfifl: {landing in a line with the outer 
face of the corridor. This pavilion (if we may 
judge by analogy from what we find in other tem- 
ples) led to an inner recefs or faerarium terminating, 
probably, in the fegment of a circle : but of this 
we had no certain proof, as the rubbifh was not yet 
removed from this part of the building. 
(8) Vitruvius, Lib. iii. cap. 3. Gradus in fronte ita conjiitu- 
endi funt , uti fint femper impares : namque cum dextro peck primus 
gradus afeendatur , item in templo primus errt ponendus. 
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