Memorandum on the subject of the Earl of Elgin's pursuits in Greece (London, 1811)

luable inscriptions, written in the manner
called Kionedon or Columnar, next in
antiquity to the Boustrophedon. The
greatest care is taken to preserve an equaV
number of letters in each line.; even mo-
nosyllables are separated occasionally intp
two parts, if the line has had its com--
plement, and the next line then begins
with the end of the broken word. The
letters range perpendicularly, as well as
horizontally, so as to render it almost
impossible to make any interpolation or
erasure of the original text. The subjects
of these monuments are public decrees of
the people ; accounts of the riches con-
tained in the treasury, and delivered by
the administrators to their successors in
office; enumerations of the statues; the
silver, gold, and precious stones, deposited
in the temples ; estimates for the public
works, &c. ,;

: The Parthenon itself, independently of
its decorative sculpture, is so chaste and