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OF THE MAUSOLEUM. 77
the Commander de la Tourette, a Lyonnese knight,
who was afterwards present at the taking of
Rhodes, and came to Prance, where he related what I
am now about to narrate to M. d'Alechamps, a person
sufficiently known by his learned writings, and
whose name I mention here only for the purpose of
publishing my authority for so singular a story.
" "When these knights had arrived at Mesy (Bu-
drum), they at once commenced fortifying the castle;
and looking about for stones wherewith to make
lime, found no more suitable or more easily got at
than certain steps of white marble, raised in the
form of a terrace (perron) in the middle of a level
field near the port which had formerly been the
great Place of Halicarnassus. They therefore pulled
down and took away these marble steps, and, finding
the stone good, proceeded, after having destroyed
the little masonry remaining above ground, to dig
lower down, in the hope of finding more.
" In this attempt they had great success, for in a
short time they perceived that, the deeper they
went, the more the structure was enlarged at the
base, supplying them not only with stone for making
lime, but also for building.
" After four or five days, having laid bare a great
space one afternoon, they saw an opening as into a
cellar. Taking a candle, they let themselves down
through this opening, and found that it led into a
fine large square apartment, ornamented all round
with columns of marble, with their bases, capitals,
architrave, frieze, and cornices, engraved and sculp-
tured in half-relief. The space between the columns
the Commander de la Tourette, a Lyonnese knight,
who was afterwards present at the taking of
Rhodes, and came to Prance, where he related what I
am now about to narrate to M. d'Alechamps, a person
sufficiently known by his learned writings, and
whose name I mention here only for the purpose of
publishing my authority for so singular a story.
" "When these knights had arrived at Mesy (Bu-
drum), they at once commenced fortifying the castle;
and looking about for stones wherewith to make
lime, found no more suitable or more easily got at
than certain steps of white marble, raised in the
form of a terrace (perron) in the middle of a level
field near the port which had formerly been the
great Place of Halicarnassus. They therefore pulled
down and took away these marble steps, and, finding
the stone good, proceeded, after having destroyed
the little masonry remaining above ground, to dig
lower down, in the hope of finding more.
" In this attempt they had great success, for in a
short time they perceived that, the deeper they
went, the more the structure was enlarged at the
base, supplying them not only with stone for making
lime, but also for building.
" After four or five days, having laid bare a great
space one afternoon, they saw an opening as into a
cellar. Taking a candle, they let themselves down
through this opening, and found that it led into a
fine large square apartment, ornamented all round
with columns of marble, with their bases, capitals,
architrave, frieze, and cornices, engraved and sculp-
tured in half-relief. The space between the columns