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Soon afterwards, somewhat higher up, we also CHAP. 
saw, among some loose stones used as the mate- s . ' 
rials of a wall near to the gate of the Citadel, a piece 
of sculpture of white marble in very bold relief, 
representing the torso of a male figure. This 
proved to be nothing less than a fragment of one 
of the metopes belonging to the PARTHENON; and 
therefore, as the undoubted work of Phidias, Relic of 
although but a fragment, could not fail to be sculpture, 
regarded by us as a valuable relic, and a very 
great curiosity. It was not to be easily pro- 
cured ; neglected and abandoned as we found 
it lying ; owing to the embargo then laid upon 
every thing of this kind by our Ambassador, 
and the absolute prohibition against moving any 
thing, excepting into his store-house. The 
Disdar, however, afterwards claimed it as his 
property, and presented it to us ; and it is now 
in the Vestibule of the University Library at 
Cambridge, a solitary example of sculpture 
removed from the ruins of the Parthenon without 
injuring what time and the Goths have spared. 
Upon the left hand we saw, in the face of the 
rock, the small cavern which perhaps may be Adytum 
considered as the Grotto of Pan ; for this, by its 
relative position to other objects, seems to be 
the identical cavity which is represented in the 
