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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Ociastyle at ¿ithens in the Temple of Jupiter Olympiuf"
Then, in the very next paragraph, Mr. Stuart has
this astonishing sentence. "The plan of the Athenian
Temple of Jupiter Olympius, which I shall give at the
end of this chapter, will shew that it was a decastyle,
and therefore could not possibly be that meant by Vi?
truvius, but some other : how then are we to under?
stand him ? J shall venture to suppose, that it is the
Olympian Temple, in the territory of Elis, he has here
mentioned "

The evident contradiction and confusion of this
part of the paragraph, must be apparent to every reader,
Vitruvius describes the hypethre with 10 columns, Mr,
Stuart proves the Olympian, at Athens, to have also 10
columns, and then asserts, it is not possible Vitruvius
could mean this Temple, to be an instance of such a
hypethre, because it hag 10 columns ! I could point out
several other inaccuracies, in the letter press, if the li?
mite of this publication would permit ; and while I re»
joke, that our Country is in possession of the inestima.
Ì}le treasure of the plates in this work, I cannot but
lament the disparaging oversights in the verbal account
published in the name of the author, who after such,
diligent researches, and so long absence from his Coun-
try, deserved a better fate, than to meet, on his return,
with embarrassments, which broke his spirits, and
which I much suspect, was the occasion of the incor-
rectness discovered in his verbal descriptions.

But to return to the subject of Tuscan Temples,
in chap. 7, book 4, of Vitruvius. Besides the variation
from his first Temple, which so exactly corresponde
with the disposition of the Minerva Polias, as not to
leave room in thç least to doubt of it's bejpg the Minerva

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