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    determined to vvj ^ k the rest of the way , as our raafi told mttixty wdto ( iari > wn only four miles to go ; but k peasant * wte was ^ rotkipgf atiith ^ cfe ^ ot ; rafc [ inae df us thatit was six or sevens and we > foundy to our coityitoQitsit ^ Indeed , these people seem to have most indefinite ideaESof ' disiaMb ^ HrWiidiir we were approaching the end of our journey y I asketfa mawitwf farrit ) was > to Psestum . " Half a mile , " he replied * A few yaroV furtto ^ r ? ^ ? Jprntl ihei same question to a boy , who told me that it was a mile £ and & opapiefoft

    hundred yards still further , I asked again , and the reply was , " Two rattan But what else was to be expected from such strange , wild-looking' crea * tures as the inhabitants of this country are , with sheep-skins on their backsp and such grim and savage aspects , that it was difficult to divest oneself of the idea that every one we met was a robber ? Though I had availed myself of a traveller ' s mule , and my friend of a horse ^ which had overtaken us on the road , we found the way long and fatiguing , and it was not till two hours and a half after leaving our carriage , that we saw the noble colonnades of Psestum rising to our view .

    This city is supposed to have been the ancient Posidonia of a colony of Sybarite adventurers , who , on landing here , found a town , drove its inhabitants into the mountains , and established themselves in their stead . _ , The Sybarites were , in their turn , supplanted by the Lucanians , and these again by the Romans , under whose dominion Posidonia assumed the name of Psestum , and having survived the Roman empire in the west , was destroyed by the Saracens about the commencement of the tenth century . The lower part of the walls is still left , with one of the gates , and two or three of the

    towers ; and besides these , it is said that the remains of a theatre and an amphitheatre are still discoverable . But by far the most perfect and the most beautiful of the ruins , are two temples and a basilica , or court of justice ; and it is a singular proof of the durability of these structures , that although they were visited by Augustus as venerable antiquities , nearly nine hundred years before the invasion of the Saracens , they still remain , when almost every thing around them is levelled with the dust , and seem as if they were

    determined to remain still longer , surviving in their massive strength all the ravages of time , and the desolation of empires . The principal of these ruins , and the first which we visited , was the Temple of NeptuneJ 'It is a quadrilateral building , about 200 feet long by 80 broad ; and it / has two fronts , each adorned by a pediment , supported by si ^ - enormous'fluted columns . * Each side is supported by twelve columns , ( thosein the angles not being counted twice , ) and a Doric frieze and cornice encompass theJ whole building . These pillars are all of what is called the s } toftted \ $ > ckic

    order , being only 27 feet high , but with a circumference of 20 feet 6 inches at the bottom , though considerably smaller at the top . I particularly hotioed that neither these nor any other of the pillars at Paestutft have bases , but'rest on the p latform of the temple—a particular , of which the architect < of ttoej jail at Glasgow was either ignorant , or 'to Which he ' did not think propefotUb adhere , though this is the orcter of which he has made choice . ^ Witliiw th ^ eastern front is a vestibule , * supported by two < columns / 'and leading tot thfa cella 9 or central partly it * which & < : ' i » i supposed that the > altara < < werfcfiplafc&b This is 44 feet in br&adtfh - ' ( , it ! id inclosed byibur dtfarf Svall % and 4 dormd with fourteen columns , disposed in the same manner as the exterior rows , but less massive . These interior columns suppprt an immense architrave , pn ¦ ¦• . , . ,. | . .. i ¦ ' , ' i ¦ ( 1 11 , ¦ * T't Illlincil , TfMr > l ' ' ilrw- , , i ; 7 . ' /"»/] J

    ' " i' i "" . ' i'j i \ i" ~ , i ' ' i ' t ' ) i if i ri' * 11 ! i "» m mi'" ~ TT 7 rn i ' / \ i < t , < - i \ < 111 ! /; * The poitic <> of thd' Blhid' ( Asyltitii Chttrcft ( bit - ijtverpcM' fsr ' bttt It exactly > aii'the model of these fronts , '^ thmi ^ fh ^/ iV a rtiiidi ' stoailer ff ^ le . ' ' ' ¦"' " } ' «> , / > fn ,, ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1828, page 837, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2567/page/37/