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a nd flage, was not fo cleared out, as to be diflindly 
feen : the other, where the fpedators fat, is very vifi- 
ble, and confifls of 1 8 rows of broad hone feats, one 
above another, in a femicircular form, and are fuf- 
ficiently wide to place the feet of thofe, who lit be- 
hind each other j fo that they may be faid to be both 
feats and footilools. Altho’ this theatre is not emptied 
of the matter or earth, that filled it, yet they have 
dug quite round the exterior part r by "which one may 
judge of its fpacioufnefs. At certain proper dilfances, 
within the circuit of the feats, thro’ the whole range, 
from bottom to top, are little narrow flights of heps, 
by which the fpedators might come to, or go from, 
their feats commodioufly, without crouding. Thefe 
fleps or flairs alfo lead up, in a llrait line, to a fort 
of gallery, feveral feet wide, which ranges all round 
the outlide of the theatre, and which is called the 
precind ; above which there are other flairs, which 
lead to a fecond. By this precind it is judged, that 
the theatre, with the orcheflra, muff be about 52 
or f3 feet diameter. 
I obferved, going round the theatre, feveral large 
fquare pilaflers, equally diflant from each other ; and 
which, doubtlefs, fupported the whole edifice. Thefe 
pilaflers are of a thin compad red brick, adorned 
with marble cornices. The pavement of this theatre 
mufl have been very beautiful, by the different -colour'd 
marble, that has been taken out of it, and fome that 
remains. In fhort, by the broken pieces of cornices, 
mouldings, and carved work, and the many fragments 
of pillars, &c. which have been found within and 
without the theatre, it appears to have been a mofl 
magnificent edifice. 
There 
