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: DISTRICT OF TROAS. I93 
from a considerable distance at sea. It has three chap. 
noble arches in front, and behind these there 
are many other : the stones are placed together 
without any cement. Large masses of sculptured 
marble, being the remains of a cornice, appear 
above and on each side of the arches in front. 
The whole structure was once coated over with 
marble, or with plates of metal : and holes for 
the metal fastenings may yet be seen over all 
the work. Of the three front arches, the center 
arch measured forty-eight feet wide at the base, 
and each of the other twenty-one. The stones 
in this part of the work were five feet ten inches 
long, and three feet five inches thick. Behind 
the center arch there is a square court, having 
four other arches ; one on each side. A noble 
flight of steps conducted to the center arch in 
front : and upon each side of this there was a 
column of the prodigious diameter of eight feet : 
the marks of their bases are still visible upon 
the two pedestals. Those columns were not of 
entire blocks of stone ; for we saw their dis- 
jointed parts among the ruins below the flight 
of steps. The back part of the building, and 
the two sides, were surrounded by walls sup- 
ported upon open arches : twelve of these arches 
remain on the northern side, almost entire. The 
the Ruins of Alexandria Troas, as a frontispiece to his work ; calling 
them the Ruins of Ilium, with the Tombs of Priam and Hecuha. See 
Nineteen Years' Travels, ^'c. by JV. LUhgoiv. 4to. Lond, J 6 14. 
