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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 91
hamstringing cattle which they could not carry off, plunder-
ing and murdering every male inhabitant they could find:
this was to be continued till one of the family of the mur-
derer was sacrificed to their revenge.
I observed that the people of this village were more
friendly to me than any I had met with: no person asked
for a present, and all seemed anxious to show me what was
to be seen; which might perhaps be imputed to their fears.
Not knowing how soon their enemies might appear, 1
contented myself with taking a general view of the ruins.
They consist of three gates to pyramidal moles; of which
latter no traces now remain. These gates are behind each
other, at unequal distances; and behind the last, a portico of
four columns, with entablature, cornice, and side-walls in
high preservation.
The first gate is plain, with a cornice and fillet above the
doorway, which is about sixteen feet high. In the cornice
is a small oblong in relief, apparently intended for an inscrip-
tion. The gateway is twelve feet thick of masonry. There
are openings at the top, differing from any thing I had seen
in other temples, and which in fortification would be said
to be for orgues.
The second gateway is twenty-two paces distant, and has
a winged globe in the cornice. The doorway is rather wider
than the first, though of the same thickness.
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hamstringing cattle which they could not carry off, plunder-
ing and murdering every male inhabitant they could find:
this was to be continued till one of the family of the mur-
derer was sacrificed to their revenge.
I observed that the people of this village were more
friendly to me than any I had met with: no person asked
for a present, and all seemed anxious to show me what was
to be seen; which might perhaps be imputed to their fears.
Not knowing how soon their enemies might appear, 1
contented myself with taking a general view of the ruins.
They consist of three gates to pyramidal moles; of which
latter no traces now remain. These gates are behind each
other, at unequal distances; and behind the last, a portico of
four columns, with entablature, cornice, and side-walls in
high preservation.
The first gate is plain, with a cornice and fillet above the
doorway, which is about sixteen feet high. In the cornice
is a small oblong in relief, apparently intended for an inscrip-
tion. The gateway is twelve feet thick of masonry. There
are openings at the top, differing from any thing I had seen
in other temples, and which in fortification would be said
to be for orgues.
The second gateway is twenty-two paces distant, and has
a winged globe in the cornice. The doorway is rather wider
than the first, though of the same thickness.
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