RUINS OF FAtMYH*. 54 Q 
^ave been the most spacious and beautiful. At the 
l^“'is line are two nitches for statues, with their pedes- 
“''dersj supporters, and canopies, carved with the 
S K ®^®Sauce. The space within the inclosure appears to 
court, in the centre of which stood the 
®^cornpassed with another row of pillars of a 
'<11^^ >tt order, and much taller, being 50 feet in height; 
trii'® remain. The whole space contained within 
jP'l'ars is 5 g yards in length, and nearly 28 in breadth 
Vn.^''’ple, which points north and south, is 3: 
II, • Is 
®iid 13 or 14 in breadth. 
yards in 
At its centre, on the west 
'Host magnificent entry, on the remains of which 
Jitefi 5^Hsters of grapes are carved in the most bold and 
i iinitation of nature that can be conceived. Over 
k>r 
** displayed a pair of wings extending its .whole 
Sov ’ belonged is totally 
So that it cannot certainly be known, whether it 
' "f an eagle or of a cherub, several representations 
titling visible on odier fragments of the building, 
jj'iflt g”,®'‘tremity is adorned with the most curiousfret- 
I'Htj *l^,has-relief; and in the centre is a dome or cupola, 
leet in diameter, which appears to have been either 
7 h c*' 'lio rock, 
f ■ 
■I't obelisk, consisting ot seven large stones, besides 
if™tt a’ wreathed work about it. 
Sw , a statue, which the lurks, in their zeal against 
J f,.‘ 'a''e destroyed. At the distance of a quarter of a 
this pillar, to the east and west, are two others, 
‘‘111). *11 fragment of a tliird, so as to lead to the supposi- 
t was originally a continued row. 
paces from the middle obelisk, straight 
‘**9(1(1/ IS a macnificent entry to a piazza, 40 feet in 
or moulded of some composition 
_ 16 time has become equally hard. North of this 
^ **9tiit “belisk, consisting of seven large 
jW, and the wreathed work about it. It probably 
C*'ii 
’to* 
of 
“ttid more than half a mile in length, inclo.sed with 
/''liajj- **t marble pillars 2b' feet high, and 8 or 9 feet in 
these there still remain 129 J and by a moderate 
li¥‘ Tl **» there could not have been originally le.ss than 
originally 
s(. HPPsr end of this piazza was shut in by a row of 
•n(lg ^‘inding somewhat closer than those on each side 
^9ts JJ*® left are the ruins of a stately building, which 
a^ a®'® ® hanqueting house : it is built of better 
Hd is Ihiisbed with still greater elegance than die 
