REMARKS ON THE RUINS. 
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proximity to the part of the palace which now lies under the 
mound, further inclines me to believe that this was the retiring 
place of the monarch, to perform his morning and evening 
adorations. 
At about a hundred and sixty feet to the south-east of this 
little building of the four pillars, and down upon the level of the 
great platform, (u) appears another pile of ruins. (P) On draw¬ 
ing near, I found not only foundations and scattered fragments, 
but the frames of doors and windows, and niches in the walls ; 
some upright, and all distinctly traceable. A quadrangular 
building, (P) of forty-eight feet, constitutes its chief structure ; 
and another, separated from it by only the intermediate wall, 
extends towards the south thirty feet, where it is completely 
open. These two apartments would appear to comprehend the 
whole edifice, did we not see a continuation of the foundation 
of walls along the southern front, with the fragments of columns, 
architraves, and other architectural adjuncts to the support of a 
roof. At the extremities of the walls which point to the south, 
leaving the open space between, (b b) are two single stones, in 
height about eighteen feet, five in thickness, and three and a 
half in width. Their inward faces, near the top, are excavated 
with large square holes, as if for the reception of a connecting 
beam. A couple of door-ways at (c c) have bas-reliefs of the 
double guard on their sides, and another portal of considerable 
expansion opens from the middle of the southern apartment 
into the inclosed quadrangle. On this passage we found the 
walking figure of the king, attended by one person only, carrying 
a parasol. The square to which it conducted us, has received its 
principal light from a range of lofty windows ; the casements of 
three are yet tolerably perfect, as well as are several niches cut 
