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REMARKS ON THE RUINS. 
in the solid wall. Two entrances open into it from the east and 
west, ornamented with repetition bas-reliefs of a combat between 
a man and a lion. Two others perforate the wall to the north, 
(all the walls are five feet thick,) but one only of its portals is 
standing, and its sides are sculptured with the spearmen. The 
interior ground of these apartments, as well as that without, is 
raised, and rendered very uneven by the fallen fragments of their 
more ruined parts. No trace of an inscription is to be found 
in the building ; neither does it appear to stand, like those to 
the west, on any terrace of its own. 
At one hundred and ninety feet to the north, stands a structure 
(q) next in extent as a single building, to that of the Chehel- 
minar. It is a perfect square, of two hundred and ten feet 
along each face. Two doors enter it from every side, but those 
from the north have been the grand portals, being thirteen 
feet in width, whereas all the others are only seven. Between 
every two of the latter is an immense niche, while the former 
are divided by seven large windows, whose side-blocks measure 
ten feet, the original depth of the walls. At forty feet distant 
from the northern front, and almost parallel with its east and 
west corners, rise the mutilated forms of two colossal bulls, (a a) 
standing on pedestals of eighteen feet in length, by five in height. 
They are the remains of statues, not bas-reliefs, and clearly shew 
by their position on each side of an area of entrance, that they 
were meant for ornament, not idolatry. These two face the 
north ; and at two hundred and seventy feet from them, in the 
same direction, (R) appear two others looking due south. This 
latter twain have formed the sides of a grand gate-way, the style 
and dimensions of which are much like those of the great 
portal (D) on the first platform. The one I am now describing 
