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Rh Bk. IX. Ch. II. SYRIA AND ASIA MINOR. 423 have square terminations (Kefr Kileh and Behioh), but this seems exceptional. Most of them are almost the size of our ordinary parish churches — 100 ft. by 60, or thereabouts — and all belong to the three centuries — the 4th, 5th, and 6th — of which this chapter espe- cially treats. The church at Baquoza may serve as a type of the class both in plan and section (Woodcuts Nos. 849, 850). Its dimensions exter- nally are 60 fi. by 105; and besides the narthex — not shown in the yZl. Plan of Cliurch and part of Monastic Buildings at Kelat Seman. (From De VogU6.^ Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. section — it has four lateral porches. It has also two square chapels or vestries at the end of the aisles — an arranoement almost universal in tliese churches. The most remarkable of the group, however, is that of St. Simeon Stylites, at Kelat Seman, about 20 miles east of Antioch. Its dimen- sions are very considerable, being 330 ft. long, north and south, and, as nearly as maybe, 300 ft. east and west, across what may be called the transepts. The centre is occupied by a great octagon, 93 ft. across.