RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 297 
The form of this theatre is semicircular ; it has 
twenty-eight rows of seats, and all of them remain 
entire. The rows are divided into two parts, by 
a corridor passing all round ; fourteen seats 
being in the upper division, and the same 
number in the lower. In the upper compart- 
ment, on each side of the theatre, is a vaulted 
chamber; one being exactly opposite to the 
other. Perhaps the measure across the arena, 
to the beginning of the seats, may rather prove 
its form to be elliptical than semicircular. We 
found the distance from, the centre portal to 
the lower bench to be thirty-five yards, and we 
obtained a major diameter of thirty-seven 
yards by measuring the distance from side to 
side. The stones of which the walls consist, 
between the portals, are eight feet ten inches 
in length ; these were placed together without 
cement, and exhibited the same massive struc- 
ture as the rest of the building. Being resolved 
to render an account as explicit as possible of 
a theatre still remaining so entire, we shall 
now proceed to state the dimensions of the 
seats. Their height is sixteen inches, and the 
breadth twenty-five; and the height of the 
corridor, passing round the back of the lower 
tier, is five feet eight inches; so that the 
elevation of the persons placed in the upper 
row was forty-two feet above the arena. Before 
