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side of the pedestal, showing the fallen sculptures and
their position as exposed by excavation: the reasonings
from this are also borne out by the position of the un-
sculptured fragments which are not noticed in this plan.
" In viewing this plan, the first striking feature is
the presence of four distinct friezes or bands of sculp-
ture, each having right-angle stones with the bas-reliefs
upon the exterior. To place these all upon one small
building appeared at first impossible, but their position
showed that they had fallen pell-mell, and I had simply
the fact to deal with, without regard to precedent: the
width of these friezes respectively was three feet three
inches, two feet, one foot seven inches, and one foot
five inches ; the two former being decidedly too wide
and heavy to have been supported by the fluted co-
lumns, only one foot two inches in diameter, found
amongst them.
"My first experiment was cutting, to a scale, pieces
of wood resembling each part of the friezes. I com-
menced by what I have called, from the subject of the
bas-reliefs, the City Frieze, two feet wide: of this I
had the four corner stones, and on placing them I
observed that the subject of the sculptures varied on
each side, suddenly changing at the angles and forming
four distinct views, each side complete in itself: the
stones are of two lengths, four feet eight inches and
four feet three inches, or varying slightly from this.
After shifting these stones repeatedly. I succeeded in
arranging them in a parallelogram, nineteen feet nine
side of the pedestal, showing the fallen sculptures and
their position as exposed by excavation: the reasonings
from this are also borne out by the position of the un-
sculptured fragments which are not noticed in this plan.
" In viewing this plan, the first striking feature is
the presence of four distinct friezes or bands of sculp-
ture, each having right-angle stones with the bas-reliefs
upon the exterior. To place these all upon one small
building appeared at first impossible, but their position
showed that they had fallen pell-mell, and I had simply
the fact to deal with, without regard to precedent: the
width of these friezes respectively was three feet three
inches, two feet, one foot seven inches, and one foot
five inches ; the two former being decidedly too wide
and heavy to have been supported by the fluted co-
lumns, only one foot two inches in diameter, found
amongst them.
"My first experiment was cutting, to a scale, pieces
of wood resembling each part of the friezes. I com-
menced by what I have called, from the subject of the
bas-reliefs, the City Frieze, two feet wide: of this I
had the four corner stones, and on placing them I
observed that the subject of the sculptures varied on
each side, suddenly changing at the angles and forming
four distinct views, each side complete in itself: the
stones are of two lengths, four feet eight inches and
four feet three inches, or varying slightly from this.
After shifting these stones repeatedly. I succeeded in
arranging them in a parallelogram, nineteen feet nine