The Jordan Valley and Petra . x\. Jerash T91 for about one thousand yards. A gate formed theentrance from the north. This street was borderedby magnificent colonnades and ended in the Peri-bolos or Forum. In some places there was onerow of columns on either side and for the greaterpart of the way, two rows. Where the crossstreets cut this main artery of the city at rightangles, there were elaborate buildings which seemto have covered part of the roadway. At the Propylseum there must have been oneof the most magrnificent masses of architecturalbeauty ever reared in any land. It is perhaps notto
The Jordan Valley and Petra . x\. Jerash T91 for about one thousand yards. A gate formed theentrance from the north. This street was borderedby magnificent colonnades and ended in the Peri-bolos or Forum. In some places there was onerow of columns on either side and for the greaterpart of the way, two rows. Where the crossstreets cut this main artery of the city at rightangles, there were elaborate buildings which seemto have covered part of the roadway. At the Propylseum there must have been oneof the most magrnificent masses of architecturalbeauty ever reared in any land. It is perhaps nottoo much to say that almost every base of thethousand columns once lining this street is still inplace, and that the ancient Roman pavement re-mains from end to end, concealed at many pointsby the debris. Some three hundred or four hun-dred columns are still standing, in whole or inpart, a hundred sections of the architrave still spanthe spaces between the columns, and the rest arelying where they fell, perhaps a thousand yearsago.
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