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a blank, and they thought we had two blanks to one
prize.' I myself think that the plain blocks exceeded
in number the sculptured ones ; and from their being
the most serviceable to the wants of the succeeding
inhabitants, they are the more likely to have been
diminished in number; the number cannot have been
increased. By the introduction of two courses I have
the proportions of my type at Alinda, and thus is formed
a pedestal with unbroken bands of frieze, which there-
fore cannot have had any approach by steps; nor do I
conceive it possible that the frieze would have been ab-
ruptly broken through by a doorway. I mention this,
as the vacant space of one stone may be supposed to
have been left to form a doorway; but we have, I think,
fragments even of this sculptured stone. The following
argument however is in my opinion conclusive on this
point. In the view of the base, massive stones are seen
still remaining above the level of the upper course upon
which we place the friezes. Time and Turks, and from
my own experience I must add English sailors, roll down
such stones, but these agents never raise them up; the
pile has no doubt been higher, but surely not lower than
at present. Again, each of the stones of the friezes
used are left rough within, and not squared at the inner
angles; while the other friezes, of which we shall speak
hereafter, are finished inside with a smooth surface and
moulding; I therefore conclude that this pedestal was
solid, and thus adapted to support the structure we are
about to place upon it.
a blank, and they thought we had two blanks to one
prize.' I myself think that the plain blocks exceeded
in number the sculptured ones ; and from their being
the most serviceable to the wants of the succeeding
inhabitants, they are the more likely to have been
diminished in number; the number cannot have been
increased. By the introduction of two courses I have
the proportions of my type at Alinda, and thus is formed
a pedestal with unbroken bands of frieze, which there-
fore cannot have had any approach by steps; nor do I
conceive it possible that the frieze would have been ab-
ruptly broken through by a doorway. I mention this,
as the vacant space of one stone may be supposed to
have been left to form a doorway; but we have, I think,
fragments even of this sculptured stone. The following
argument however is in my opinion conclusive on this
point. In the view of the base, massive stones are seen
still remaining above the level of the upper course upon
which we place the friezes. Time and Turks, and from
my own experience I must add English sailors, roll down
such stones, but these agents never raise them up; the
pile has no doubt been higher, but surely not lower than
at present. Again, each of the stones of the friezes
used are left rough within, and not squared at the inner
angles; while the other friezes, of which we shall speak
hereafter, are finished inside with a smooth surface and
moulding; I therefore conclude that this pedestal was
solid, and thus adapted to support the structure we are
about to place upon it.