180 PORT OF SUNIUM. 
CHAP, spent in the examination of the temple. This 
beautiful building was once adorned with the 
most exquisite sculpture: its materials were of 
the whitest marble; it was of the Doric order; 
and the remains of it are sufficient to prove that, 
when it was entire, it exhibited one of the most 
highly-finished specimens of Attic architecture 
in all Greece. Chandler 1 believed it to have 
been " erected in the same happy period with 
the great Temple of Minerva, called the 
Parthenon, in the Acropolis at Athens, or in the 
time of Pericles, it having like proportions, 
though far inferior in magnitude." Besides the 
temple, there was also a Propyleum of the Doric 
order at Sunium. We found fifteen columns yet 
standing 2 . The surfaces in some of those facing 
(1) Travels in Greece, p. 8. Oxf. 1776, 
(2) TheSunian Temple has been recently visited by the Rev. G. C. 
Jtenouard, Chaplain to the British Factory at Smyrna. This gentleman 
has communicated the following notices concerning it, in a Letter to 
the author : 
"There are now standing, on the south-east side, 9 columns. 
On the north side -------- 3 
On the north-west side ------ 3 
Total - - 15 
; Length of the Temple from N. w. to s. E. - 72 feet 
Breadth 45 
Height of columns from base to cornice - 23 
Distance of columns from centre to centre - 8 
Circumference, at two feet from base - - 9 . 10i inches." 
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