noble Monuments in this Church, which is kept in Repair, and indeed in the Ruins of the others alſo, ſhow the Builders to be Maſters of all the Orders in that Art, tho' the great Numbers of Doric Pillars prove them to be chiefly Admirers of that.
Nor are the Epitaphs and Inſcriptions on the Tomb-Stones leſs worthy of Remark: the various Languages in which they are engraved, teſtify by what a Diverſity of Nations this little Spot of Earth has been poſſeſs'd. Tho' Time has defaced too many of the Letters to render the Remainder intelligible, yet you may eaſily perceive Fragments of the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Arabian, Saxon, Scotch, and Iriſh Characters: ſome Dates yet viſible, declare they were written before the Coming of Chriſt; and indeed if one. conſiders the Walls, the Thickneſs of them, and the Durableneſs of the Stone: of which they are compoſed, one muſt be ſenſible that a great Number of Centuries muſt paſs before ſuch ſtrong Workmanſhip could be reduced to the Condition it now is. Theſe Churches, therefore, were. doubtless once the Temples of Pagan Dei-
ties,
