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CHAPTER IV.
Exploration of the Site of the Temple.
Having discovered the whereabouts of the temple,
I returned to England to recruit my strength and to
report my success personally to the Trustees. They did
not now hesitate to vote me another grant to perfect the
discovery ; and I returned to my work in September,
1869, with sufficient funds to proceed with the excava-
tions, now confined entirely to the area so far marked
out by the peribolus wall. I sank trial-holes in great
numbers from twelve to twenty feet deep, and at
the same time continued to follow the peribolus wall
until a very large area was denned as including the site
of the temple and its adjuncts. At a distance of some
hundred yards from the angle first found, I struck upon
a building which proved to be seven hundred feet long,
running from west to east, in which I found at the depth
of two feet a beautiful Roman mosaic pavement of a
Triton, who is represented carrying in one hand a dish of
fruit, in the other the pedum, or crooked stick, with
which he had obtained the fruit. A dolphin carries his
trident in his mouth ; a large dragon-fly threatens to
attack the fruit, but the Triton is guarding it with a
watchful eye. Two small fish, which I suppose might
even now be found in the Cayster, complete the group.
Exploration of the Site of the Temple.
Having discovered the whereabouts of the temple,
I returned to England to recruit my strength and to
report my success personally to the Trustees. They did
not now hesitate to vote me another grant to perfect the
discovery ; and I returned to my work in September,
1869, with sufficient funds to proceed with the excava-
tions, now confined entirely to the area so far marked
out by the peribolus wall. I sank trial-holes in great
numbers from twelve to twenty feet deep, and at
the same time continued to follow the peribolus wall
until a very large area was denned as including the site
of the temple and its adjuncts. At a distance of some
hundred yards from the angle first found, I struck upon
a building which proved to be seven hundred feet long,
running from west to east, in which I found at the depth
of two feet a beautiful Roman mosaic pavement of a
Triton, who is represented carrying in one hand a dish of
fruit, in the other the pedum, or crooked stick, with
which he had obtained the fruit. A dolphin carries his
trident in his mouth ; a large dragon-fly threatens to
attack the fruit, but the Triton is guarding it with a
watchful eye. Two small fish, which I suppose might
even now be found in the Cayster, complete the group.