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HOLY LAND, AND CYPRUS. 87pared for rowing, and stripped of its masts and sails. Theboatmen kept time to their oars with a loud and hoarsesong. Jt e: .On the 27th, in the morning, we were at Coroskee; wecontinued to Seboo, called by Norden Sebua, and Mr. LeghSibhoi, where I landed'to. visit the temple remaining there.The sand Of the desert had almost covered the portico andcourt in front.i It consists of two pyramidal moles,^ facingthe east, of masonry, having a gateway between. The mole^are not more than thirty feet above the sand; their frontninety feet in length. The gateway is six feet wide, andabout twenty in height* A cornice and torus surrounds themoles and the upper part of the gateway.Round the cor-|iice of th& moles a waving fine is sculptured, without anyother ornament.The gateway is twelve feet thieki andopens to a court almost filled with-sand; in front of the portico,who^ roOf appears to be formed from the rock. It isjoined to the moles by a colonnade of three square pillars oneach side, on the front of which are disfigured statues inalto relievo, half buried in the sand. The pillars support anentablature, and are enclosed by a Wall from the two extremesof the moles. The entablature of this colonnade is of singlestones, from pillar to pillar, twelve feet long, four broad, andthree deep.On these, and on the walls, are hieroglyphicsand symbolic figures, representing some deity receiving of-ΚΥΠΡΙΑΚΗ ΒΙΒΛΙΟΘΗΚΗ