124 MOUNT HELICON. 
CHAP, considered as the characteristic lof a Moslem 
.' i dynasty and a barbarous people ; the most dis- 
cordant masses being collected from other works, 
and the Stelce of the sepulchres mixed with stones 
of all shapes and sizes in the materials then 
used; just as they now appear when heaped 
together, as it is commonly believed, by Romaic 
or by Turkish workmen. That the Antients may, 
therefore, have left examples of this promiscuous 
masonry, even in their works, is evident : but a 
search for inscriptions, and fragments of sculp- 
ture, in this country, is seldom more successful 
than when it is carried on among modern eccle- 
siastical buildings. The capitals of the columns 
of antient temples often serve in the Greek 
chapels for Christian, altars : and when these 
chapels have been erected upon the site of a 
Heathen temple, those capitals not unfrequently 
denote the order of architecture observed in the 
original building, when every other trace of its 
history has been lost. The Monastery of St. 
Nicholo is among the number of modern edifices 
constructed from the ruins of a long-forgotten 
shrine ; and a clue to its pristine sanctity and 
celebrity has been preserved, in the manner we 
Antiquities havc mentioned. In a church near to the monas- 
discovGrcd 
at the Mo- tcry wc fouud a long inscription upon the shaft 
"suNilhoio- of one of the pillars, distinctly mentioning the 
