RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 303 
rocks. In places where the side of a mountain chap. 
exhibits an almost inaccessible steep, the antient • 
workmen seem to have bestowed their principal 
labour. In these situations may be seen exca- 
vated chambers, worked with such marvellous 
art as to resemble porticoes with Ionic columns ; 
gates and doors beautifully sculptured, on which 
are carved the representations as of embossed 
iron-work, bolts, and hinges. Yet every such 
appearance, however numerous the parts that 
compose it, proves, upon examination, to consist 
of one stone ^. When any of the columns have 
been broken at their bases, they remain sus- 
pended by their capitals ; being, in fact, a part 
of the architrave and cornice which they seem 
to'support, and therefore sustained by them, and 
by the contiguous mass of rock above, to which 
they all belong. These are the sepulchres which 
resemble those of Persepolis. The other kind 
of tomb found at Telmessus is the true Grecian 
Soros, the Sarcophagus of the Romans. Of this 
sort there are several (but of a size and gran- 
deur far exceeding any thing of the kind else- 
where), standing, in some instances, upon the 
cfaggy pinnacles of lofty precipitous rocks. 
(2) A similar style of workmaiislii]) may be observed in the stupen- 
dous Indian temples, as they ha^e been beautifuUy delineated by 
Mr. Dunid. 
