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SUMMARY OF THE AUTHOR’S 
same royal pontiff seated in his chair of state, enjoying the 
security of peace, and surrounded by a throng of people pressing 
to uphold his throne. In this building I completed the catalogue 
of sculptures immediately connected with the objects on the 
platform ; and, going out at the eastern portal where the king 
and the tailed monster keep their unwearied guard, the mountain 
itself was before me. The slope commences at two hundred 
feet from the side of the edifice, rising out of the surface of the 
platform which had been cut from its base. 
I went forward, and ascending the height for about six hundred 
feet, arrived at one of the excavated tombs, (X) which stands in 
a direct line with the great building of the pontiff-king. To 
describe it, would be a repetition of what I saw in the sepulchre 
at Nakshi-Roustam, with only one difference, a range of small 
l ions running along the frieze, which crowns the bull-headed 
pilasters. I have made a sketch of these animals in Plate XLIII. 
(a) to shew they are not dogs; a mistake that has prevailed, 
from the hasty observation of some former travellers. Another 
excavation is seen more to the south, and higher up the moun¬ 
tain. But an illness, induced by the heat and fatigue, and whicl 
I vainly fought against, had made such progress by the time i 
would have visited the second tomb, my diminished strength was 
not sufficient to climb the steeper rocks. I viewed it, however, 
from the distance at which I stood, and was reconciled to my 
disappointment; nothing appearing different in it, from the one 
I had been so fortunate as to reach. 
Near the south-eastern angle of the platform, and on the 
slope of the hill, I found the extensive reservoir (W) which 
formed the grand fountain for the reception of the waters of the 
mountain; and whence they flowed in a variety of subterraneous 
