GREEK INSCRIPTION. 
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About fifty yards from this rocky platform, more towards the 
bridge, and at the foot of the mountain, bursts a beautifully clear 
stream. Just over its fountain-head, on a broad protruding mass 
of the rock, the remains of an immense piece of sculpture are 
still visible, but so lamentably defaced, that it is almost impos¬ 
sible to make out any one continued outline. The whole has 
been contained in an enormously extensive frame-work excava¬ 
tion, within which many now shapeless projections are seen ; 
but, by close attention, parts of the rude forms of several colossal 
figures may be traced. The most apparent, are seven in a range, 
which have formerly stood out from the rock in something more 
than bas-relief, and their bearded visages are tolerably distinct; 
but all that is observable, shews that the work has been done by 
the very coarsest chizel. The principal cause of the general 
mutilation of this specimen of remote antiquity, must have arisen 
from subsequent additions, without reference to it, having been 
made on the same spot. First, a large and deep tablet has been 
excavated in the very middle of the sculpture, for the purpose of 
containing a Greek inscription; and, secondly, a few years ago, 
this was almost entirely obliterated by another in the modern 
character of the country, relating to some royal grants for the 
road. It being long and closely written, very little can now be 
discerned of its predecessor ; but that little I have copied, leaving- 
gaps where the stone was broken away by the rough hand of 
man : time, in this country, appearing to deal gently with all his 
works. 
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