Abstract

,CONS'l'RUCTION OF THE TABERNACLE. time (i.e., of the time of Augustus), showing clearly the sanie large chisel- drafting as at Jerusalem, though on smaller stones: while the piers of the Aqueduct show a 'b~tter of what appears to be about the S'l.nleangle of inclination. The base is 13 feet (old French measure) and it narrows ~o 9 feet 6 inches, at a height of 31 feet. The pointed arch in the palace wall is a medireval addition, which has, as willjbe seen, displaced SOllleof the stones. ROMA-X 1\fASONRY AT TARRAGONA. PALACE OF AUGUSTUS. CITY WALL. I think a comparison of these walls with the drawings of Dr. Bliss and Archibald Dickie and others, in the Quarterly Statement, will prove of interest. With the mention of one more item I will conclude. ' If I under.: stand the drawings correctly, it is not infrequent to :find in masonry at Jerusalem even chisel-drafted stones bedded the wrong way of the grain; that is, with the lines of stratification running perpendicularly to the bed, instead of horizontally. We have found several chiselled stones similarly placed iIi the Roman wall of Gloucester. By the Rev. W. H. B. PRO BY, M.A.., Crosse and