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Excerpt from Observations on the Temple of Serapis at Pozzuoli Near Naples: With an Attempt to Explain the Causes of the Frequent Elevation and Depression of Large Portions of the Earth's Surface in Remote Periods, and to Prove That Those Causes Continue in Action at the Present Time, With a Supplement, Conjectures on the Physica I shall now give a description of the Temple of Serapis from the notes I made in 1828. 1. The external walls of the temple are lowest on the side nearest the sea, where they are about 7 feet 6 inches high. They gradually increase in height, until, at the extreme end of the cella, B, the portion which remains measures 13 feet 4 inches above the pavement of the temple. 2. The three columns X', X," X"', each about 41 feet high and 4 feet 11 inches in diameter at the base, are nearly similar, and are represented in Plate I., X' being the left-hand column in the plate. The pavement of that part of the temple marked I I, figure 1, is about 5 inches lower than the rest of the internal area. The top of the base of the shaft is 2 feet 4 inches above the pavement, and the marble of which it is composed is uninjured. That part of the shaft of the column immediately above the base presents nothing remarkable up to the height of 5 feet 8 inches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.