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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913. Excerpt: ... feet 6 inches across. A long row of Doric columns ran along the front of the colonnade, with its projecting wings; and in the interior there were two rows of columns of the Ionic order extending along the GOVERNMENT OFFICES FIG. 34.--MARKET.PLACE OF MEGALOPOLIS (cONJECTURAL RESTORATION BY E. CURTIOs). whole length of the colonnade. The back of the colonnade on the north and the two short sides on the east and west were closed by walls. Attached to the back wall were two quadrangular exedrae or recesses, which were entered from the colonnade by openings in the wall. These recesses had a length externally of about 52 feet each, and projected about 1o feet from the back wall. The foundations and most of the existing walls are built of conglomerate; the stylobates, bases, and columns are of white limestone but the capitals of the Ionic columns are of marble. Clamps of two different shapes ( -- and r--,) are used to fasten the blocks together. The enclosing walls of the colonnade, so far as they exist, consist of a course of upright blocks of conglomerate, 2 ft. 8 in. high, and a course of limestone blocks, 6J inches thick, laid on the top of the uprights. There are two of the upright blocks in the thickness of the wall; they are panelled on the face and coated with stucco. The foundation of the stylobate of the outer columns is built of slabs of conglomerate; its average width is 5 feet, and in the west wing it is at least five courses deep. A portion of the stylobate of the east wing still exists; it is composed of two steps resting on a course of limestone slabs. The Doric columns of the facade are set at intervals of 4 ft. ii in., measured to the inside of the flutes. Pieces of five of these columns are standing in their original positions in the east wing...