302 RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 
CHAP, subject of the origin of temples'. It was there - 
stated, that the most antient Heathen structures, 
for offerings to 'the Gods, were always either 
tombs themselves, or they were built where 
tombs had been. Hence the first temples of 
Atheris, of Paphos, and of Miletus; and hence the 
terms used by the most antient writers in 
their signification of a temple. Hence, also, the 
sepulchral origin and subsequent consecration 
of the Pyramids of Egypt. But since Mr. Bryant, 
alluding to the tombs of Persepolis, maintained 
that they were temples ab origine, as distin- 
guished from places of burial, it will be right to 
shew, that those of Telmessus, corresponding 
exactly with the Persepolitan monuments, so 
that one might be confounded with the other, 
have upon them inscriptions denoting explicitly 
the cause of their construction. 
Sepulchres Thc Tombs of Telmessus are of two kinds; 
Teimes- botli bcing visiblc from the sea, at a considerable 
scnsians. 
distance. The^r^^, and the more extraordinary, 
are sepulchres hewn in the face of perpendicular 
accuracy in the Koyage Pittoresque," If the Reader attempt to form 
his judgement of the Ruins of Telmessus from that work, he will 
neither have any notion of their real grandeur, nor any correct idea 
of their appearance. 
(l) "Journey along the frontier of Circassia." See Parti. 
Vol. II. Chap. II. p. 75. of the Octavo Edition. 
