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CHAP, 
IV. 
Cause of 
the Inju- 
ries sus- 
o Scalp. 
ATHENS. 
to maintain that the Parthenon was not so 
considerable an edifice as the Church of St. 
Martin in London; thereby affording a remarka- 
ble proof of the impossibility of obtaining from 
any written description, or even from engraved 
representation, any adequate idea of the build- 
ings of Antlent Greece-, compared with whose 
stupendous works, the puny efforts of modern 
art are but as the labours of children. 
By means of the scaffolds raised against the 
Parthenon, for the Formatori, and for other artists 
who were engaged in moulding and making 
drawings from the sculpture upon the frieze, 
we were enabled to ascend to all the higher 
parts of the building, and to examine, with the 
minutest attention, all the ornaments of this glo- 
rious edifice. The sculpture on the metopes, 
representing the Combats of the Centaurs and 
Lapithte, is in such bold relief, that the figures 
are all of them statues. Upon coming close to 
the work, and examining the state of the marble, 
... . . ,, 
it was evident that a very principal cause ot 
the injuries it had sustained was owing, not, as- 
. it nas been asserted ', to " the zeal of the early 
(l) Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Erin's Pursuits 
in Greece, p. 11. Land. 1811. 
