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following letters, of the only inscription we could find, on a 
broken slab of marble, afford no other information than that 
the language in use here was Grecian; and even this evidence 
:• must not here be disregarded: 
.... . o.X 
, AION 
p i or 
We presently came to the cornice of a Doric entablature, 
of such prodigious size, that our artist, Moos. Preaux, said he 
had seen nothing like it in Athens. There were other Doric 
remains; and the shaft of one Corinthian column, twenty-two 
inches diameter, distinguished from the Doric in having the 
edges of the canelure flat instead of sharp. Higher upon the 
bill we found the remains of another temple: the area of this 
measured one hundred and forty yards long, and forty-four 
wide. Here the workmen had taken up about a hundred 
blocks of stone and marble : every one of these measured five 
feet eleven inches in length, and was eighteen inches thick. 
We afterward found an angle of the foundation of this temple; 
a bath, whose roof was yet entire; and another fragment df 
the Doric entablature before mentioned. As the temples of 
Jupiter were all of the Doric order, it is very probable, what¬ 
ever may be the antiquity of these works, that here was the 
-situation of the temple and altars of Idsean Jove, mentioned by 
Horn erf* by TEschylus,f and by Plutarch.J Their situation 
with respect to Gargarus, precisely agrees with Homer’s de¬ 
scription. According to Aeschylus, they w r ere£N x&Aini nAmi; 
and the highest point of all the Idsean chain extends itself into 
the plain, in such a manner, that the hill at its base, upon 
which these,ruins appear, is, in fact, a part of Gargarus itself. 
The baths point out the history of the place, and there are 
warm springs in the neighbourhood. The original temple was, 
therefore, probably, a very ancient one of Jupiter Liberator^ 
situated near the heights of Ida, on the site of which, in later 
ages, these buildings were accumulated. 
* Iliad, a 47. 
: f iEschyl. in Niob. V-id. Strab. Geogr. lib. xii. p. 530. 
t Ilap&KUTiCtt <5’ airrw opos "Ifo, to 7rpoT4pov 51 wakGro Potapov, oirou Aios na\ 
•’M-nfpos Ojwv (3cojio! T^xdvouaJV. “ Adhaeret ipsi raons Ide, qui prius vocabatar 
'Gargarus, ubi Jo vis et Matris -Deoruw altaria occurrunt.” Plutarch 4e Fiuv. 
Ed, 2 7 olmi ap Bose, IG15, 
