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Chap, xxxi.]
MARBLE BLOCKS.
19
represented the interior, and would serve to hold the pub-
lie treasures, as golden statues, cups, vases, and figures of
different shapes and sizes, for which they would have been
admirably adapted, showing at a single glance the various
riches of the treasure-house, arranged with taste and ele-
gance round the walls of the apartment. But whatever they
may have been intended for, they are extremely curious:
the largest which I measured was 11 ft. long, 6 ft. 4 in. high,
and 4 ft. 9 in. wide. The others were rather less gigantic,
but still of great size, and more cubical, like that repre-
sented in the accompanying woodcut, which was upwards
of eight feet high. The rude materials had evidently been
brought from the hills in the neighbourhood.
No. 17.
[Marble bitch near Sighajik.'}
A short distance to the S.E. of the lake is an insulated
rock of considerable height, and forming a conspicuous
object from the anchorage of Sighajik: it is of blue marble,
the same as that used in ancient Teos ; and on the north
face it bears evident traces of having been a quarry, whence
the Teians may have obtained the marbles which adorned
their town. It is of the same nature as that which occurs
in the neighbourhood of Erythrse and Ephcsus.
Having spent a fortnight most agreeably in this inte-
resting spot, it was not without regret that we at length
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MARBLE BLOCKS.
19
represented the interior, and would serve to hold the pub-
lie treasures, as golden statues, cups, vases, and figures of
different shapes and sizes, for which they would have been
admirably adapted, showing at a single glance the various
riches of the treasure-house, arranged with taste and ele-
gance round the walls of the apartment. But whatever they
may have been intended for, they are extremely curious:
the largest which I measured was 11 ft. long, 6 ft. 4 in. high,
and 4 ft. 9 in. wide. The others were rather less gigantic,
but still of great size, and more cubical, like that repre-
sented in the accompanying woodcut, which was upwards
of eight feet high. The rude materials had evidently been
brought from the hills in the neighbourhood.
No. 17.
[Marble bitch near Sighajik.'}
A short distance to the S.E. of the lake is an insulated
rock of considerable height, and forming a conspicuous
object from the anchorage of Sighajik: it is of blue marble,
the same as that used in ancient Teos ; and on the north
face it bears evident traces of having been a quarry, whence
the Teians may have obtained the marbles which adorned
their town. It is of the same nature as that which occurs
in the neighbourhood of Erythrse and Ephcsus.
Having spent a fortnight most agreeably in this inte-
resting spot, it was not without regret that we at length
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