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The antiquities of Athens and other monuments of Greece (1858)

Stuart, James, 1713-1788, Revett, Nicholas, 1720-1804 · London : H. G. Bohn · leaf 118

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ejecting so extensively and 102 THE TEMPLE OF THESEUS. selecting with such fine discrimination, came to retainone of the most barbarous features of Egyptian archi-tecture. If the transmission were indirect ; if, inquitting Africa, the system took the Asiatic coasts andislands in its way, then the… … ; N a south-eastern direction from the-Cfa Acropolis, at the distance of about\ffif1 five hundred yards from the foot of}\ the rock, stand sixteen giganticcolumns, of the Corinthian order ofarchitecture. They are the remains of a temple whichformerly boasted of an hundred and twenty (124 ?);so…

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