546 
MERGE TO CYRENE. 
Statue alluded to by Dr. Della Celia ever occupied a place upon the 
pedestal inscribed. Near this female statue is another of a young 
man (also without the head) which we never remember to have seen 
equalled in Greek sculpture, for the taste and execution of the 
drapery. 
There are some extensive remains of building, with a very hand- 
some colonnade, on the high ground between the small theatre and 
the aqueduct, which appear to be those of a palace or other resi- 
dence of more than ordinary importance. From the northern 
colonnade the ground descends abruptly, and the soil is kept up 
by a wall which forms the back part of the chambers built at the 
foot of it. These consist of a single range of quadrangular apart- 
ments, which appear to have been from twenty-five to thirty in 
number ; their length (at right angles with the wall already men- 
tioned) is about forty feet, and their average breadth (for they ditfer 
in some instances) about twenty. It is not at present evident, 
whether these communicated with the building above them or not ; 
but one of them has had a wall built across it, opposite to that which 
forms the back of the chambers, in which there is no door, so that 
there could not have been any access to it from the lower ground. 
There is at the same time no appearance of any staircase leading 
down to them from above ; and if there had, it would have been 
necessary to have built a separate one for each, for they have no com- 
munication one with another. We do not, therefore, imagine that 
all of them have been closed, but that they had access to the ground 
in front of them, and none to the colonnades and chambers above. 
