Gabb, Thomas: Finis pyramidis or Disquisitions concerning the antiquity and scientific end of the great pyramid of Giza, or ancient Memphis, in Egypt, and of the first standard of linear measure (Retford, 1806)

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himself has afterwards delineated, in the open prönäo%
of the Minerva Polias.) Vitruvius no mòre assimilates-
the deviation here in question tö the Parthenon* than
to the Pantheon at Rome, and whoever will peruse the
7 chap* 4 book, will find it wholly apertains to Tuscan
Temples.

As to Mr. Stuart's eorrectidn of the term, extsoñd,
it is very similar to some of Perraulf s. I have before
said full as much on this teriiis as the Word< or his cor-
rection of it, is worth. The sequel of the explanation
of the plate % is 80 replete with blunders, founded on
the previous mistake, that I cannot persuade myself to
believe Mr. Stuart was the author of them; of if be was,
that bis ill state of health, and embarrassment of mind,
at the time he put the materials together, which com*
pòse this, and some other parts of the letter press*
rendered him incapable of accurate recollection* And*
it is much to be wisbed, that the above, and some other
glaring inconsistencies, in the printed copies, that ao*
company the useful, and interesting designs, published
in tbe plates, were duly revised, and such degrading
passages as the above and subsequent, rectified ; which
raight be printed in very few sheets, and published,
both for tbe credit, as well as for the further utility, of
so excellent and so valuable a collection of designs. I
hope the Society of the Délitant i, may at a future time,
take the matter into their consideration, and render the
present printed expositions more concordant with the
plates?. They must be convinced, how exactly the Mi-
nerva Polias, coincides with "Vitruvius's first variation
from the plan of a Tuscan Temple, With which he be-
gins his 7 chap. 4 book: and that the Parthenon is totally
foreign from every kind of Tuscan Temples, set forth

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