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leave, after much difficulty, to pull down
this house also, and continue his re-
searches. But no fragments were here
discovered ; and the Turk, who had been
induced, though most reluctantly, to give
up his house to be demolished, then exult-
ingly pointed out the places in the modern
fortification, and in his own buildings,
where the cement employed had been
formed from the very statues which Lord
Elgin had been in hopes of finding. And
it was afterwards ascertained, on incon-
trovertible evidence, that these statues had
been reduced to powder, and so used.
Then, and then only, did Lord Elgin
.employ means to rescue what still re-
mained from a similar fate. Among these
objects is a horse's head, which far sur-
passés any thing of the kind, both in the
truth and spirit of the execution. The
nostrils are distended, the ears erect ; the
.veins swollen, one might almost say throb-
-bing : his mouth is open, and he seems to
leave, after much difficulty, to pull down
this house also, and continue his re-
searches. But no fragments were here
discovered ; and the Turk, who had been
induced, though most reluctantly, to give
up his house to be demolished, then exult-
ingly pointed out the places in the modern
fortification, and in his own buildings,
where the cement employed had been
formed from the very statues which Lord
Elgin had been in hopes of finding. And
it was afterwards ascertained, on incon-
trovertible evidence, that these statues had
been reduced to powder, and so used.
Then, and then only, did Lord Elgin
.employ means to rescue what still re-
mained from a similar fate. Among these
objects is a horse's head, which far sur-
passés any thing of the kind, both in the
truth and spirit of the execution. The
nostrils are distended, the ears erect ; the
.veins swollen, one might almost say throb-
-bing : his mouth is open, and he seems to