THE TOMB OF MAUSOLUS. 55 But, again, there are three estimates of height by as many authors — i8o, 140, and 80 feet. Shall we reconcile all these by supposing that the first is to the top of a flag-staff, the second to the chariot, and the third to the cornice ? Nothing final can be done with dimensions like these, all sorts of con- jectural restorations are possible, and unless we proceed inde- pendently the problem is insoluble. For instance, Fergusson Fig. 43. — Rejected Restoration. grouped his columns at the angles into threes. Another might suppose that the angle columns, as is so frequently the case, were counted twice over, or another, again, that the 63 feet should be cubits like the dimension of height. On these lines I put on record a rejected hypothesis (Figs. 41,42,43) which combines many advantages. The long front has seven bays which at 9 feet each make up the desired dimensions (inter-columniations of i^ diameters were quite possible, and the lacunaria need not
