. A description of the East, and some other countries . tle, with a roundtower at each corner, the other is built like a palace, with feveral doorsand windows; thefe buildings are of a red granite in large grains,all the mountains here abounding both in the red and grey fort; andprobably, if quarries were dug down, many beautiful veins might befound. To the fouth of the city, at the foot of the hill, there are agreat number of fepulchres made in different manners; fome are hewndown into the rock like graves, others are cut in the fame manner intofmall rocks that rife up above the ground; fome
. A description of the East, and some other countries . tle, with a roundtower at each corner, the other is built like a palace, with feveral doorsand windows; thefe buildings are of a red granite in large grains,all the mountains here abounding both in the red and grey fort; andprobably, if quarries were dug down, many beautiful veins might befound. To the fouth of the city, at the foot of the hill, there are agreat number of fepulchres made in different manners; fome are hewndown into the rock like graves, others are cut in the fame manner intofmall rocks that rife up above the ground; fome are built like pedeftals,with two or three fteps round them, and covered with large ftones, asreprefented at F, in the fifty-third plate: I faw others like an oblongfquare rock above ground, without any vifible entrance, but by a fmall Ihole that appears to have been broke in, and one would imagine thatthere was fome paffage cut under ground to them : There are alfo fe-veral of them which are fmall buildings about eleven feet fquare ,• a plan 1 .ind.
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