240 Mr Roe’s Description of a Newly Discovered Temple 
trees. To the northward of this mountain, a small bay is fonn- 
ed by the sea, where boats approach the shore, to water at the 
fountains, supplied by springs, which discharge themselves at 
the bottom of a natural ravine, between two hills of sandstone, 
and 36 feet above the sea. In the hottest season, they produce 
5480 gallons of water daily. About half way from the sum- 
mit of Mount Ascension to the sea, were found the buried 
Ruins of Cadachio, and aqueducts of considerable extent. 
The edifice was Doric hexastyle, and stood E. SE. and 
W. NW. The six columns which supported the pediment, on 
the land side, and seven of the lateral ones, though much de- 
cayed, wei*e in their places, but the remainder, and nearly half 
the cella, had fallen into the sea. 
In its original state, the peristyle probably consisted of thirty 
columns, standing on a stylobate of two steps. The divisions 
of the cell cannot now be traced, but a remarkable erection still 
exists within it, and seems to point out the situation of the altar, 
which was coated with some foreign substances. The inter- 
columniation is diastyle. The zophoros or frieze is totally want- 
ing ; and the corona, which is not Doric, as well as the episty- 
lium or architrave, exhibit no remains of guttge, regiilae, or mu- 
tules. 
The abacus is plain, and the echinus flat, like those of the 
best examples ; the flutes, which are twenty in number, pass 
through the hypotrachelium or neck, which is cut by two 
grooves. The walls that remain of the cella are but two courses, 
or about 2 feet 9 inches above their foundation, and the only en- 
trance appears to have been on the sea side. 
The general Dimensions of the Building are nearly as fol- 
'' 
Ft. 
In. 
Breadth of the Cell, 
- 
24 
0 
Do. of the Portico, exclusive of the steps, 
38 
4 
Upper diameter of the Columns, 
- 
1 
6 
Lower diameter, 
- 
2 
0 
Height of the Shaft, 
- 
9 
8 
Height of the Capital, - j 
\ Abacus, 
[ Echinus, 
0 
0 
5| 
6 
Clear intercolumniation, 
- 
5 
6 ) These how- 
Intercolumniation of the Angles, 
- 
5 
4 j ever vary. 
