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these it will be seen, that the part devoted to the altar was on the 
eastern side of the building; but the extreme length of one of them 
is much greater than usual, and it is not unlikely that the portion at 
its western extremity, although comprised in the same hne of wall, 
was part of another building. 
Near one of these (that to the eastward of the town) we found 
part of an entablature in the worst taste of the lower empire, which 
we conjectured to be the remains alluded to by Signor Della Celia, as 
probably having formed a part of the temple of Bacchus : it is true 
that they are mentioned by the Doctor as capitals and not as parts 
of the epistylia ; but as the fragment is small, it is possible that such 
a mistake may have been made ; and if this be not what is alluded to 
in the passage below, we confess that nothing else could be found 
among the ruins which would at all correspond with the description *. 
The streets of Teuchira appear to have been built in squares, and 
to have crossed each other at right angles. One large street seems 
to have passed completely across the town, from the eastern to the 
western gateway ; and towards the centre of this we found some 
columns and the arch of a gateway which probably stood across 
the street. In various parts of the city, to the north-east and south- 
west of it in particular, there are imposing remains of fallen columns 
and entablatures, which have no doubt belonged to buildings of more 
than ordinary importance ; but without excavation it w ould not be 
* Vi si scorgono pure gli avanzi di un tempio che io ci'edo essere stato dedicate a 
Bacco, a giudicarne da’ capitelli, che giaciano afFastellati fra le sue rovine, guarniti di 
foglie di viti con grappoli pendenti. — (P. 199.) 
