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OF THE MAUSOLEUM. 89
by my workmen out of the earth, and, on a closer
inspection of the walls of the Turkish houses and
gardens, I found them to he full of pieces of the
same mouldings, intermixed with which were frag-
ments of colossal lions similar to those in the castle.
On the west side of the Mausoleum, in front of
the house marked Vakuf in Plate II., is a field
hounded by a wall, which contained a number of
drums of Ionic columns, with an average diameter
of 3' 5". Taking down this wall, I found in its
foundations the hind-quarter of a lion, rather smaller
than those in the castle ; and, on digging below its
base, came upon a line of vertical cutting in the
native rock of the field. This cutting in the rock
ran north and south.
Continuing to follow it downwards, I came to an
area paved with large slabs of a coarse green stone
strongly clamped together with iron. These slabs
were'1 4' square and 1' thick. The height from the
level of the pavement to the natural surface of the
rock above was, in this place, about eight feet. The
hollow all along the side of the cutting was partially
filled up with drums of Ionic columns, and fragments
of bases and capitals and other remains of architec-
ture; among these were two marbles fromLacunaria,
one of which retained the original blue colour of its
ground in surprising freshness. Intermixed with
these architectural remains were several portions of
the bodies of colossal lions on the same scale as.
those in the castle, very many small fragments of
d In this work, feet and inches are generally expressed tlras :
feet, '; inches, ".
by my workmen out of the earth, and, on a closer
inspection of the walls of the Turkish houses and
gardens, I found them to he full of pieces of the
same mouldings, intermixed with which were frag-
ments of colossal lions similar to those in the castle.
On the west side of the Mausoleum, in front of
the house marked Vakuf in Plate II., is a field
hounded by a wall, which contained a number of
drums of Ionic columns, with an average diameter
of 3' 5". Taking down this wall, I found in its
foundations the hind-quarter of a lion, rather smaller
than those in the castle ; and, on digging below its
base, came upon a line of vertical cutting in the
native rock of the field. This cutting in the rock
ran north and south.
Continuing to follow it downwards, I came to an
area paved with large slabs of a coarse green stone
strongly clamped together with iron. These slabs
were'1 4' square and 1' thick. The height from the
level of the pavement to the natural surface of the
rock above was, in this place, about eight feet. The
hollow all along the side of the cutting was partially
filled up with drums of Ionic columns, and fragments
of bases and capitals and other remains of architec-
ture; among these were two marbles fromLacunaria,
one of which retained the original blue colour of its
ground in surprising freshness. Intermixed with
these architectural remains were several portions of
the bodies of colossal lions on the same scale as.
those in the castle, very many small fragments of
d In this work, feet and inches are generally expressed tlras :
feet, '; inches, ".