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their precise use. One of them is a solid quadrangular mass, now 
about five feet in height, which appears to have been intended as a 
station merely, from which the horses and chariots of those contend- 
ing for the prize might be inspected as they entered or came out of 
the stadium, for it is not sufficiently elevated to command a view of 
the course. It is fifty-eight feet in length by eighteen in breadth, 
without any appearance of having been more than a kind of raised 
platform, unvaried by architectural ornament ; and we have only sug- 
gested the use for it mentioned because we cannot in fact assign any 
other to it. The second may, perhaps, have been a small temple, or 
some building in which the contending parties, and those who had 
the management or superintendence of the games, might assemble to 
make arrangements respecting the course, or to settle any differences 
which might arise with regard to the race. Its form is similar to 
that of a temple, without external columns ; but there is some 
appearance of there having been a colonnade attached to it, sup- 
ported by the walls of the building. It is raised upon a small 
eminence, about an hundred feet to the westward of the terrace, 
near the entrance of the stadium. Westward of the circular part of 
the hippodrome, and to the south-east of the largest of the temples 
which have been described, is a walled space of ground of consider- 
able extent, which may have been appropriated to the gymnasium ; 
but there is so little at present remaining within its limits, that we 
will not venture an opinion respecting it. We could very much 
have wished to excavate in parts of this inclosure, as well as about 
the temple themselves, but our time and means would not allow of 
