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132 EXCAVATIONS ON SITE OE MAUSOLEUM.

southern walls in Plate III., it will be seen that, if
prolonged, they would meet, forming a right angle,
parallel to the south-east angle of the Mausoleum.

I am inclined to think that they did form such
an angle, but, as the place where the two walls
would meet is under a house which is still standing,
this point could not be ascertained.

As the exterior surface of these walls was care-
fully dressed, it is to be presumed that their upper
courses at least were intended to be seen; indeed
it is difficult to understand what could be the object
of concealing the rock by a revetement, unless this
facing of masonry marked a change of level in
the platform.

There is, however, this difficulty—that at the
two points to which the southern wall has been
traced, and at the southern extremity of the eastern
wall, the vertical cutting ceases, and the rock re-
appears at the same level, or nearly so, as the
margin of the Quadrangle.

So that, if we suppose the change of level marked
by the revetement wall to have been continuous
along the east and south sides, the upper courses
of this wall must have been at least 1' higher than
the level of the rock behind; in other words, the
level of the margin of the platform on the east
and south sides must have been higher than the
surface of the native rock by as many inches as
would be required to make a step at the line of
revetement wall.

If the two revetement walls really formed part of
the plan on which the site was laid out, which, from