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mound, fnflf-H .on the outfide, and Aguiar ris tbe; am^itliiiater
in the parHk .*©f PiranHfand, tydndh,34a® it ha& ■ fepT.e ’ pepiaiiariitags, I
btrgp fiere planned, mqim! E^.niiiOwithr!6her tfoJlaseing referencas :
Piran-rountf. < j ; A, the area -ofithe amphitheater^} perfeddpted,5abQUt: ©tee finn-T
d i^ and thirty feet, dianiet^; B, the benches, feven a& number of
turf, rifii^iieight ie e f 1 from the:.area;; r G^-»die''tQp iQfedhkni&mpart,
feven feet: wide; D, the outer dope -of the rampart:; -£, cthe ifojfe^
F, the dope j©£^the> fofe; G, thev Jeviel of the hid qnwhieh the
work is •formed; H, a,; circular opit, in diameter thirteen -feet;
deep three feef, the fides Hoping, and half way idowii a hen ch^
turfe^fp Tormejd as to redupe itha area iof the botteijh :t® h i ellipfisif
I, a cfhallow trench, running from the pit H nearly ^ft, four, feet
fix inched wide,- . and one foot deep, till it reaches ttbe amdstrasft
bench of the amphitheater A , d^ q n^ p b i$9 terminated; by;a; .fenaiT
oval cavity K, eleven feet from northrto : fouth, and Inine feet
fiom eaft to weft, which-makd® a'ifeeachinjthaheti^he^:; t
- Fig. iv. fhews the profile .of the .whole workf" » «, the afPS; :b9
belches; c, rampart; e, the fois; b, the p it; L the 'treifeh; k>
the cavity.
This is"rcudqus and' regular work, and is ftymed tyith the ex-
adfnefs ;of, a fortification, but the vifible benches within, the pit,
the trench, and cavity, and the fofs having no efplariade beyond.
it, determine ir in its prefent figure ta theifeesof an amphitheater.
The greateft difficulty is. to account fee the pit H, and the, trench
and cavity I K, whiqh are appendixes to it. _ Now it. ,n|jjft..be pjfc
ferved, that the fcenary part of thefc perfprnjances wa§ .muph. worfe
than the cpmpofition; that the ffebjeeft feeing tafegn froni Scrmfe^e^
Hiftory, the perfbns of the Deity brought upon the .frage from
above, apd the infernal fpirits. froip..below, they thought it„pepe^ty.
to appropriate peculiar places to adrors of fuch different characters;,
accordingly I find by their interludes that they had Ajdattyn thefe
Rounds whiph they palled Heaven, and I infer from thencq that they;
had another called Hell; and from thefe two places the different
beings were- tp proceed when they came to affe and withdraw to,
when their parts were finifhed: I conjecture therefore, that as K
might reprefent the upper regions, fo the pit H might he allotted,
tp the infernal. In the interlude of the refufredlion alfb,. the pit
H might fetye fpr the grave; the trench, and the cavity might be
defigned to exhibit the afeenfion into Heaven. How -proper thefe
wild expedients were to raife the admiration, affe&ions, and piety
o f the beholders, the judicious reader Will eafily guefs, and
lament the age of ignorance, when by mutual confept of Laity
and Clergy, (fojf without both they could not take place) the
people were to have every truth let before their eyes by memo-
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