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96 HISTORY OP THE DISCOVERY
base, and that, after having cleared away these
upper ruins, the knights removed the basement, slab
by slab, working down till they got into the royal
sepulchral chamber itself, which was probably
situated in the very heart of the masonry of the
basement. After the occupation of Budrum by the
Turks, the foundations must have continued to
serve as a quarry, for the twelve houses which I
found standing on the site were all built of rubble,
in the proportion of three parts of green stone to
one part of marble, both materials having been
evidently broken up by the sledge-hammer. The
Mausoleum can only have ceased to supply build-
ing materials when the hollows caused by the
removal of its foundations became inconveniently
deep, and were filled up with soil by deposit from
the hill to the north.
The amount of green stone still to be seen in the
castle proves that the basement of the Mausoleum
was built of it, and that the mass of this basement-
must have made it a considerable feature in the
whole design of the edifice. "What the height of
this lower part was, may, I think, be inferred from
Pliny's description, as will be more particularly
shown when the architecture of the Mausoleum
comes under discussion in this work.
At what level the sepulchral chambers in the
basement were situated, cannot now be ascertained.
It is worthy of note that the great stone east of
the staircase rested on two slabs of white marble,
to which it had been carefully adjusted in the
following manner:—In the great stone, bronze
base, and that, after having cleared away these
upper ruins, the knights removed the basement, slab
by slab, working down till they got into the royal
sepulchral chamber itself, which was probably
situated in the very heart of the masonry of the
basement. After the occupation of Budrum by the
Turks, the foundations must have continued to
serve as a quarry, for the twelve houses which I
found standing on the site were all built of rubble,
in the proportion of three parts of green stone to
one part of marble, both materials having been
evidently broken up by the sledge-hammer. The
Mausoleum can only have ceased to supply build-
ing materials when the hollows caused by the
removal of its foundations became inconveniently
deep, and were filled up with soil by deposit from
the hill to the north.
The amount of green stone still to be seen in the
castle proves that the basement of the Mausoleum
was built of it, and that the mass of this basement-
must have made it a considerable feature in the
whole design of the edifice. "What the height of
this lower part was, may, I think, be inferred from
Pliny's description, as will be more particularly
shown when the architecture of the Mausoleum
comes under discussion in this work.
At what level the sepulchral chambers in the
basement were situated, cannot now be ascertained.
It is worthy of note that the great stone east of
the staircase rested on two slabs of white marble,
to which it had been carefully adjusted in the
following manner:—In the great stone, bronze