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Identifier: gri_33125009339611 (find matches)
Title: A description of the East, and some other countries
Year: 1743 (1740s)
Authors: Pococke, Richard, 1704-1765 Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773 Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810
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Publisher: London : Printed for the author, by W. Bowyer : And sold by J. and P. Knapton, W. Innys, W. Meadows, G. Hawkins, S. Birt, T. Longman, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley, J. Nourse, and J. Rivington
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hes on each fide ; a plan of it may befeen in the fiftieth plate at X, and probably it was defigned for the fame ufeas the other. Returning to the large baton, and going along to the weftof mount Lepre, we came to the remains of a very confiderable build-ing at L, moftly built of brick ; a plan of it may be feen at B in theforty-fi.ith plate. It is poflible this might be fome public building be-longing to the people of the afylum, it may be their forum, as it very muchrefembles the building I have already defcribed near the Circus. Be-tween this and the temple of Diana there is a hollow ground, in whichthere is fome water; this might antiently ferve for a bafon. Furtherfouth at I, is the great theatre facing to the weft, and hollowed intothe hill ; a plan of it, and a view of the feats may be feen in the forty-ninth plate at A and B ; a fecSion down the middle is reprefented atE; and another at D, at the end of the feats, which is taken as it ^ Thefe ought to have been reverfcd. would
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