RUINS OF TELMESSUS. 
CHAP, yock; neither would the interior have been dis- 
vm. 
' cerned, had it not been for a small irregular 
aperture, broken by the people of the country 
through one of the divisions hewn in imitation 
of pannels. Through this hole, barely wide 
enough for a person to thrust his head, we 
obtained a view of the interior. Here we per- 
ceived the same sort of chamber as in the others, 
but without the smallest joint or crevice, either 
belonging to the doors, or anywhere in its mas- 
sive sides, by means of which a stone might be 
removed, or any opening effected for a place of 
admission. This may be left for explanation by 
future travellers who visit Macri. It was to 
us altogether incom.prehensible ; and therefore 
it is better to curtail the marvellous, than, by 
enlarging upon such a subject, to incur the 
imputation of writing a romance. Something 
like the curious cement, before mentioned S in 
the Oracular Cave to the west of the Theatre, 
might perhaps, by its resemblance to natural 
stone, have deluded our observation, and thus 
concealed a secret entrance to the tomh. There 
is reason to suspect, from the general appearance 
of their places of burial, that the Telmessensians 
were not more studious of beauty and elegance 
in their construction, than of preventing access 
(1) Sec page- 258. 
