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The length of the frieze was originally about five
hundred and twenty feet, seventy at each end, one
hundred and ninety at each side; it can scarcely be
ascertained how much of this remained at the com-
mencement of Lord Elgin's operations ; but we know
that a very considerable portion of the sculpture on
each side was destroyed in the Venetian siege, that
some of what afterwards remained, and was drawn by
Stuart, amounting to about two hundred feet, had dis-
appeared, and that more was exceedingly mutilated;
so that the drawings of that artist are now the only
memorials remaining of many parts of that interesting
work. Lord Elgin removed all which remained at the
sides of the cell, and at the eastern end, and one slab
from the western end; and of those portions which
still remain over the western vestibule, he brought
only casts in plaster, which, with the original marbles,
are deposited in the British Museum. The whole
extent of original frieze collected by Lord Elgin,
amounted to about two hundred and fifty feet, a consi-
derable portion of which was the result of excavation.
As the Parthenon and its decorations are the sole
objects of these remarks, it has not been deemed
necessary to take notice of the other valuable objects
The length of the frieze was originally about five
hundred and twenty feet, seventy at each end, one
hundred and ninety at each side; it can scarcely be
ascertained how much of this remained at the com-
mencement of Lord Elgin's operations ; but we know
that a very considerable portion of the sculpture on
each side was destroyed in the Venetian siege, that
some of what afterwards remained, and was drawn by
Stuart, amounting to about two hundred feet, had dis-
appeared, and that more was exceedingly mutilated;
so that the drawings of that artist are now the only
memorials remaining of many parts of that interesting
work. Lord Elgin removed all which remained at the
sides of the cell, and at the eastern end, and one slab
from the western end; and of those portions which
still remain over the western vestibule, he brought
only casts in plaster, which, with the original marbles,
are deposited in the British Museum. The whole
extent of original frieze collected by Lord Elgin,
amounted to about two hundred and fifty feet, a consi-
derable portion of which was the result of excavation.
As the Parthenon and its decorations are the sole
objects of these remarks, it has not been deemed
necessary to take notice of the other valuable objects