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left, five, seven, and twenty, also with entablatures; the latter
twenty are taller than the others, the lower ground on which they
stand having required an increased height of column in order to
place the whole entablature of the semicircle on the same level.
The pillars near the entrance are about fifteen feet in height, and
one foot and a half in diameter : they are all of the Ionic order, and
thus they differ from all the other columns remaining in the city.
The radius of the semicircle, in following the direction of the long
street, was one hundred and five paces.
At the end of the semicircle, opposite to the long street, are several ¬
basins, which seem to have been reservoirs of water, and remains
of an aqueduct are still visible, which probably supplied them.
To the right and left are some low arched chambers. From this
spot the ground rises, and on mounting a low but steep hill before ¬
me, I found on its top the remains of a beautiful temple (g),
commanding a view over the greater part of the town. The front
of the temple does not stand directly opposite to the long street
and the forum, but declines somewhat to the northward. Like
the temple first described, it was adorned with a Corinthian peristyle, ¬
of which one column only remains, at the south angle.
In front was a double row of columns, with eight, as I conjecture, ¬
in each row. They seem to have been thrown down by an
earthquake, and many of them are now lying on the declivity
of the hill, in the same order in which they originally stood.
They are six spans and a half in diameter, and their capitals appeared ¬
to me of a still finer execution than those of the great temple. ¬
I am unable to judge of the number of columns on the long
sides of the peristyle: their broken shafts lie about in immense
heaps. On every side of the temple except the front, there appears
to have been a large ditch round the temple. Of the cella the
side walls only remain, the roof, entrance, and back wall having
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