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the long street, I followed it along the colonnade (v) and found the
greater number of the columns to have Ionic capitals. On the
right side are only two small columns, with their entablatures ; to
the left, are eight, two, three, two, four, and again three, each sett
with their entablatures; close to the ruined town-gate (w), near the
bank of the river, is a single column.
I shall now describe the ancient buildings which I observed on
the south-west side of the long street. The street which leads from
the theatre across the rotunda (r) is prolonged from thence towards
the side of the river: it was lined with columns, of which two only,
with their entablatures, remain, and it terminates at a vast edifice
(u), situated over the river, and extending along its banks forty or
fifty paces; it is divided into many apartments, the greater part
of which have arched roofs; some of them are very lofty.
I now returned towards the gateway (n), and found, opposite to it,
and to the great temple (a), a second cross street running towards
the river ; it had originally a colonnade, but none of the columns
are now standing ; it terminates, at about thirty paces from the
main street, in a gate, through which I entered into a long quadrangle ¬
of columns, where, on the right hand, four, and then three
columns, with their entablatures, are still standing. At the end of
this place, are the remains of a circular building fronting a bridge (p)
across the river: this bridge is of steep ascent, owing to the
northern banks being considerably higher than the southern, and
it is no longer passable.
Having returned to the four cubical pedestals (d), I followed to
the left the continuation of the street (c), by which I had first approached ¬
those pedestals, and which having crossed the main
street at the pedestals, leads south-westward to the river, where
it terminated at a broad flight of steps, leading down to the
bridge (k); ofthe colonnade of this street (i), some broken shafts
