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disposition of the columns is by no means evident in this temple, and 
the number is very uncertain ; but the ambulatory must have been 
a good deal below the pavement of the aedes, since there is no space 
allowed for it upon the basement we have mentioned ; and it must 
consequently have been upon the terrace beneath it, which a})})ears to 
have been left for that purpose. The columns must therefore have 
been unconnected with the roof, and have merely supported the 
covering of the ambulatory. Indeed, it seems likely that the portico 
was altogether detached from the aedes, and judging from the remains 
of a wall, which appears to be part of the original plan, and the position 
of a column without it, we may perhaps suppose that it was situated on 
the edge of the terrace above-mentioned ; and that the whole space of 
four-and-twenty feet between this wall and that of the fcdes, was a 
space between the portico and the body of the temple, which does 
not appear to have been covered in. In this disposition we imagine 
the wall just alluded to to have formed the back of the portico, and 
the column, still remaining, to have been one of the range which 
supported its roof in front. Immediately below this column the 
ground descends, and traces may be observed of steps leading up 
to it. 
In the aedes there seem to have been only apronaos and cella; and 
in the latter is a detached mass of building, raised above the level of 
the other parts of it, for which we are wholly at a loss to account, 
there being no analogy between its disposition and that of any part 
of a cella in its usual arrangements. 
The length of the aedes is a hundred and eleven feet, and its 
