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EXCAVATIONS ON SITE OE MAUSOLEUM. 123
last chapter. The soil being thus unproductive,
and the expense of so deep an excavation very great,
I did not dig over the whole of the ground between
this wall and the eastern peribolus; but, having
removed the black upper soil, I explored the sub-
soil partially, by sinking pits and driving galleries.
Cutting a broad trench on the ridge, near the eastern
•peribolus wall (see Plate II.), Ave found, at a depth
of about 6', a layer of splinters of marble and green
stone, intermixed with fragments of the freestone
rock of the platform, by the decomposition of which
the whole had been amalgamated into a compact
surface.
Below this layer was a mass of rubble composed
of fragments of native rock, such as would accu-
mulate near a spot where it had been quarried
out. We dug in this rubble to a depth of 35'
before bottom was found. The rock here was cut
in ledges and angles, as would be the case in an an-
cient quarry, and, on exploring it by mines in
several directions, I found the same hind of cuttings.
Immediately to the east of the Avail described
p. 119, and near its southern extremity, is a large
rectangular cutting, Avhich I at first supposed to be
a sepulchral chamber.a (See Plate III.)
More extended excavation, however, showed that
this Avas only a cutting in the quarry.
At the depth of 23' beloAV the surface Avas a
coffin or sows, about 7' long, cut out of stone, the
ends being rounded, two vieAvs of winch are given,
a Papers, etc., p. 48. Further Papers, p. 7. In Plate III. this
soros is marked as" Sarcophagus."
last chapter. The soil being thus unproductive,
and the expense of so deep an excavation very great,
I did not dig over the whole of the ground between
this wall and the eastern peribolus; but, having
removed the black upper soil, I explored the sub-
soil partially, by sinking pits and driving galleries.
Cutting a broad trench on the ridge, near the eastern
•peribolus wall (see Plate II.), Ave found, at a depth
of about 6', a layer of splinters of marble and green
stone, intermixed with fragments of the freestone
rock of the platform, by the decomposition of which
the whole had been amalgamated into a compact
surface.
Below this layer was a mass of rubble composed
of fragments of native rock, such as would accu-
mulate near a spot where it had been quarried
out. We dug in this rubble to a depth of 35'
before bottom was found. The rock here was cut
in ledges and angles, as would be the case in an an-
cient quarry, and, on exploring it by mines in
several directions, I found the same hind of cuttings.
Immediately to the east of the Avail described
p. 119, and near its southern extremity, is a large
rectangular cutting, Avhich I at first supposed to be
a sepulchral chamber.a (See Plate III.)
More extended excavation, however, showed that
this Avas only a cutting in the quarry.
At the depth of 23' beloAV the surface Avas a
coffin or sows, about 7' long, cut out of stone, the
ends being rounded, two vieAvs of winch are given,
a Papers, etc., p. 48. Further Papers, p. 7. In Plate III. this
soros is marked as" Sarcophagus."