breadth fifty fe et; the outer walls are four feet in thickness, and
that of the pronaos somewhat more than three. The capitals of
some fluted columns which are now lying at the foot of the hill on
which the temple stands, are of no established order of architecture,
and may perhaps be said to be a mixture of Greek and Egyptian ;
a coalition which we should certainly expect to meet with at
Cyrene, but of which we recollect to have seen only a few instances.
Close to this building, on its northern side, is the quarry
from which the stone employed in its construction was probably
taken, forming a deep trench at the foot of the hill. The aspect of
both temples is nearly east, as is usual, we believe, in buildings of
such a description.
To the eastward of the larger temple, and close to the city walls,
are the remains of the stadium, part of which is excavated in the
rocky soil on which it stands, and those parts only built which the
rock could not supply. Its length is somewhat more than seven hundred
feet, and its breadth about two hundred and fifty. The course is
now so much buried, and overgrown with long grass and other vegetation,
that the mode in which it was disposed could not be ascertained
with any certainty ; neither is it easy to decide clearly how much space
was allotted to the seats, which do not occupy at present more than
five-and-thirty feet on either side. The whole is, in fact, (like the
temples,) in a very ruinous state, and nearly all the constructed part has
disappeared. There are two masses of building to the north-westward
of the stadium, which appear to have had some connection with it,
but we will not venture to state any decided opinion with respect , to
their precise use. One of them is a solid quadrangular mass, now
about five feet in height, which appears to have been intended as a
station merely, from which the horses, and chariots of those contending
for the prize might be inspected as they entered or came out of
the stadium,: for it is not sufficiently elevated to command a view, of
the course. I t is fifty-eight feet , in length by eighteen in breadth,
without any appearance.’of having been more than a kind of raised
platform, unvaried by architectural ornament; and we have only suggested
the use for it mentioned because we cannot in fact assign any
other to it. The second may, perhaps, have been a small temple, or
some building in which the contending parties, and those who, had
the management or superintendence of the games, might assemble to
make arrangements respecting the course, or to settle any differences
which might arise with regard to the race. Its form is similar to
that of a temple, without external columns; but there is some
appearance of there having been a colonnade attached to it, supported
by the walls of the building. I t is raised upon a small
eminence, about an hundred feet to the westward of the terrace,
near the entrance of the stadium. Westward of the circular part of
the hippodrome, and to the south-east of the largest of the temples
which have been described, is a walled space of ground of considerable
extent, which may have been appropriated to the gymnasium ;
but there is so little at present remaining within its limits, that we
will not venture an opinion respecting it. We could very much
have wished to excavate in parts of this inclosure, as well as about
the temple themselves, but our time and means would not allow of