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HADJAR KHEM.
apartments, is very irregular; the average height
is perhaps ten feet, but it is extremely unequal in
different parts. In the present state of our know-
ledge, it would he difficult or impossible to say to
-what purposes the various apartments were appro-
priated, although there can be but little doubt that
the entire building was a species of temple, and
on this supposition the modern name Hadjar Khem
or Hagiar Kim (the " stones of worship") has been
bestowed. Among the ruins were two large stones
about twenty inches in diameter, and seven or eight
feet long, which, when forcibly struck with a solid
body, resounded like a bell, though more feebly. 1
examined them with considerable care, and am fully
persuaded that they were not hollow. Could this
singular property of resonance be owing to the
form of the stones, or must it be attributed to the
minute structure of the substance of which they
are composed ?
Menaidra or Mnaidra is the name of another
mass of ruins a few hundred yards to the west of
Hadjar Khem. The walls are less extensive, but
they indicate a building of more regular proportions.
. I observed that a great number of the stones of
Menaidra were marked with indentations of equal
size, and nearly equally distant from each other.
HADJAR KHEM.
apartments, is very irregular; the average height
is perhaps ten feet, but it is extremely unequal in
different parts. In the present state of our know-
ledge, it would he difficult or impossible to say to
-what purposes the various apartments were appro-
priated, although there can be but little doubt that
the entire building was a species of temple, and
on this supposition the modern name Hadjar Khem
or Hagiar Kim (the " stones of worship") has been
bestowed. Among the ruins were two large stones
about twenty inches in diameter, and seven or eight
feet long, which, when forcibly struck with a solid
body, resounded like a bell, though more feebly. 1
examined them with considerable care, and am fully
persuaded that they were not hollow. Could this
singular property of resonance be owing to the
form of the stones, or must it be attributed to the
minute structure of the substance of which they
are composed ?
Menaidra or Mnaidra is the name of another
mass of ruins a few hundred yards to the west of
Hadjar Khem. The walls are less extensive, but
they indicate a building of more regular proportions.
. I observed that a great number of the stones of
Menaidra were marked with indentations of equal
size, and nearly equally distant from each other.