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106 JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE
mount, the sides of which have been cut down,
and then reveted with masonry ; the levels of the
terraces so far, being left of the common soil, a
sandy loam mixed with shingly stones. Upon
the seventh terrace rises the exposed part of the
base or plinth of the intended structure ; the
foundation of which is sunk of solid masonry
still lower; how much I have not been able to
ascertain. Within the plinth a hollow chamber is
left, forming a quadrangle Avhose extent is sixty-
one feet six inches, its depth eleven feet, and the
walls being twelve feet eleven inches thick, make
the exterior surface a square of eighty-seven feet
four inches. The interior of this chamber is
plastered with white chunam, and decorated
with painted borders and pannelled compartments,
with trees and flower-pots in them. There are
also rows of columns twenty-nine inches square,
and pilasters, to support the leaden beams and
terrace with which the whole is to be covered
when the dedicated treasures are deposited there ;
with a number of quadrangular compartments,
large and small, from ten feet to four feet five
inches square to contain them ; the smaller ones
being lined with plates of lead three-fourths of an
inch thick. The innermost quadrangles are intended
for the preservation of the treasures dedicated by
his majesty, while the span around them is de-
voted to the oblations of his courtiers. Opposite
mount, the sides of which have been cut down,
and then reveted with masonry ; the levels of the
terraces so far, being left of the common soil, a
sandy loam mixed with shingly stones. Upon
the seventh terrace rises the exposed part of the
base or plinth of the intended structure ; the
foundation of which is sunk of solid masonry
still lower; how much I have not been able to
ascertain. Within the plinth a hollow chamber is
left, forming a quadrangle Avhose extent is sixty-
one feet six inches, its depth eleven feet, and the
walls being twelve feet eleven inches thick, make
the exterior surface a square of eighty-seven feet
four inches. The interior of this chamber is
plastered with white chunam, and decorated
with painted borders and pannelled compartments,
with trees and flower-pots in them. There are
also rows of columns twenty-nine inches square,
and pilasters, to support the leaden beams and
terrace with which the whole is to be covered
when the dedicated treasures are deposited there ;
with a number of quadrangular compartments,
large and small, from ten feet to four feet five
inches square to contain them ; the smaller ones
being lined with plates of lead three-fourths of an
inch thick. The innermost quadrangles are intended
for the preservation of the treasures dedicated by
his majesty, while the span around them is de-
voted to the oblations of his courtiers. Opposite