HOLY LANT>; AND CYPRUS. 89
Having left Seboo the evening before, we arrived on the
28th at Ouffeddounee, where there are architectural remains,
in the neighbourhood of a considerable village. I landed,
and near the water-side found an oblong building, of about
fifty-four feet in length and thirty in breadth, which seems
to have been part of a primitive Christian church. There
are sixteen columns, presenting six on the north and south
sides, and four on the east and west, all perfect, of about
two feet three inches in diameter. Of the surrounding wall
the north side only is perfect.
In the east end a sort of chancel projects southward, at
right angles with the south columns, in which are painted
Scriptural figures, like those in modern Greek churches. The
capitals are not alike, nor do they appear to have been
finished. They support a die and entablature composed of
single stones from column to column, about six feet in length;
the shafts are proportionably small. I saw many painted
Greek inscriptions on the entablatures or frieze of the inte-
rior, in small characters, which I could not distinguish; the
first words of all were, TO IIPO 2KTNHMA. In the centre
of the frieze on the west end, in a small stone tablet in relief,
was the word IOHANNI, painted in red letters.
In front of the south columns are several rows of stones
in regular order, apparently of part of the building thrown
down, on which were hieroglyphics ; and, on one, some Greek
N"
Having left Seboo the evening before, we arrived on the
28th at Ouffeddounee, where there are architectural remains,
in the neighbourhood of a considerable village. I landed,
and near the water-side found an oblong building, of about
fifty-four feet in length and thirty in breadth, which seems
to have been part of a primitive Christian church. There
are sixteen columns, presenting six on the north and south
sides, and four on the east and west, all perfect, of about
two feet three inches in diameter. Of the surrounding wall
the north side only is perfect.
In the east end a sort of chancel projects southward, at
right angles with the south columns, in which are painted
Scriptural figures, like those in modern Greek churches. The
capitals are not alike, nor do they appear to have been
finished. They support a die and entablature composed of
single stones from column to column, about six feet in length;
the shafts are proportionably small. I saw many painted
Greek inscriptions on the entablatures or frieze of the inte-
rior, in small characters, which I could not distinguish; the
first words of all were, TO IIPO 2KTNHMA. In the centre
of the frieze on the west end, in a small stone tablet in relief,
was the word IOHANNI, painted in red letters.
In front of the south columns are several rows of stones
in regular order, apparently of part of the building thrown
down, on which were hieroglyphics ; and, on one, some Greek
N"