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OF THE MAUSOLEUM. 119
I shall presently show that there is reason Un-
believing that this wall met a similar wall on the
south side, to which it runs at right angles, and
that both were intended as terrace-walls, marking
a step in the platform round the margin of the
Quadrangle.
After having laid down and measured this wall,
we continued to advance eastward, finding at an
average depth of 10' the rocky platform, which, at
about the same level, forms the margin round the
Quadrangle on its other three sides.
At the distance of about 29' from the eastern side
of the Quadrangle, the rocky platform terminated
abruptly in a vertical cutting running parallel to
the wall just described.
On digging down here I found a trench 4/ wide,
with an average depth of 25', which had been cut
into beds of different levels, as if for the reception
of a wall. This trench extended from the north
wall of the peribolus, which it met at a right
angle, nearly to a house marked in Plate II. The
east side of this trench was formed by a wall of iso-
domous masonry, consisting of a single course of
squared blocks, averaging in size 2' by 18" by 15".
These blocks were dressed only on their eastern or
outer face, and were nearly all of the native rock of
the platform: but among the lowest courses were two
limestone blocks, which had been evidently taken
from some earlier building, and one of which had a
fine joint all round. The masonry of this wall was
very coarse and careless, and presented no charac-
I shall presently show that there is reason Un-
believing that this wall met a similar wall on the
south side, to which it runs at right angles, and
that both were intended as terrace-walls, marking
a step in the platform round the margin of the
Quadrangle.
After having laid down and measured this wall,
we continued to advance eastward, finding at an
average depth of 10' the rocky platform, which, at
about the same level, forms the margin round the
Quadrangle on its other three sides.
At the distance of about 29' from the eastern side
of the Quadrangle, the rocky platform terminated
abruptly in a vertical cutting running parallel to
the wall just described.
On digging down here I found a trench 4/ wide,
with an average depth of 25', which had been cut
into beds of different levels, as if for the reception
of a wall. This trench extended from the north
wall of the peribolus, which it met at a right
angle, nearly to a house marked in Plate II. The
east side of this trench was formed by a wall of iso-
domous masonry, consisting of a single course of
squared blocks, averaging in size 2' by 18" by 15".
These blocks were dressed only on their eastern or
outer face, and were nearly all of the native rock of
the platform: but among the lowest courses were two
limestone blocks, which had been evidently taken
from some earlier building, and one of which had a
fine joint all round. The masonry of this wall was
very coarse and careless, and presented no charac-