RUIN'S OF PEItSErOLIS. *03 
I tvvn "" ®™^Pfuro, similar to Ibc bases 
o rooms, pceptrag that the centre of it is occii- 
> ruh, contiguous tc 
nl’ T- ! I'emains of another square room, sur 
C^oor nr , 'Windows. On 
C^aptiB columns : from the order in which 
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■'"“'umns six rows,' 
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_ A staircase, cut into an immense mass of 
into the lesser and enclosed plain below. To- 
" f® rooms, or rather one 
tLl closets. Every thing on this 
■f " the r indicates rooms ot rest or retirement. 
of these remains, are the beds 
\'''!?Ver ^•’ '"-'tiich are cut into the solid rock. Thev oc- 
'%'’^ext building, and art: probably, t’bere- 
V'“nst course, as they are magnificent in 
V2 a groat aqueduct is to be discovered 
C'^'tscru! j stones, not tar behiml the build- 
V'* adi’p— ®'^°''’®’ quarter of the palace, and 
* ruined staircase. Its bed in some 
to ro" roet into the rock. . This Ixid leads east and 
t ’ it th Its descent is rapid, about twenty-fiva 
’ i^ut again enlarges, so that a man 
h’^^br," may stand upright in it. It terminates 
i Vd’*^^ rock. 
i-d'''3’'ds the mountains, situated in 
'V'ficeni columns, stand the remains of 
th ^®''® frames, and 
■^%fs ‘1® ®‘ue3 of which are thickly ornamented with 
iVlOare " '’‘'’''iety of compositions. This hall is a per- 
'i^i '“'® ton '"‘gi’d of this, and further to the south- 
Sr'‘*iy nf^ fragments, the walls and component parts 
to tK soother room. To the left' of this, and 
o. °°‘diward of the building, are the remains 
SI- Still, ‘“''od the features of a 
^ a north, in a separate collection, is 
v/hich, from the fragments about it. 
•1/ <Jl * IXAV5 IJ rtj'iidcms iiUUUt 11 , 
the ^^'PPofted a sphyn.x. In a recess of ihe moua- 
\K!to of?'", is a portico. Almost in a line with 
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jj the hall of columns, on the surf.icc of the 
f'o t“ho southward of that is another, 
t on the mountain's surface • between both, 
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