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The walls of the mosque are covered with a coat of fine plaster, 
upon which were many Cufic inscriptions in bas-relief, running all 
round the wall, which was embellished also by numerous elegant 
Arabesque ornaments ; a few traces of these, as well as of the in 
scriptions, still remain. The interior court-yard of the mosque is 
covered with the ruins of the roof, and with fragments of columns, 
among which I observed a broken shaft of an octagonal pillar, two 
feet in diameter; there are also several stones with Cufic inscrip 
tions upon them. 
Passing from the great mosque, southwards, we came to the 
principal ruin of Boszra, the remains of a temple, situated on the 
side of a long street, which runs across the whole town, and termi 
nates at the western gate. Of this temple nothing remains but the 
back wall, with two pilasters, and a column, joined by its entabla 
ture to the main wall ; they are all of the Corinthian order, and both 
capitals and architraves are richly adorned with sculpture. In the 
wall of the temple are three rows of niches, one over the other. Be 
hind this is another wall, half ruined. In front of the temple, but 
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