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 224 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. Part 1. geometric shapes, or apparently prepared for painting ; at each side is a flat pilaster, and above a pediment terminating in two scrolls. Some ajtparently the more modern — have pillars of a rude Doric order, and all indeed are much more singular than beautiful. AVlien more of the same class are discovered, they may help us to some historic data: all that we can now advance is, that, judging from the inscrip- tions on them, and the traditions in Herodotus, they would appear to belono- to some race from Thessaly, or thereabouts, who at some remote period crossed the Hellespont and settled in their neighbor- hood ; they may be dated as far back as 1000, and most probably 700 years at least before the Christian Era. 114. Kock-cut Frontispiece at Dogan'.u. (From Texiei's '• Asie Mineure.") There are other rock-cut sculptures farther east, at Pterium and elsewhere ; but all these are figure sculptures, without arcliitectural form or details, and therefore hardly coming within the limits of this work. The only remaining important architectural group in Asia Minor 3s that of Lycia, made known in this country since the year 1838, by the investigations of Sir Charles Fellows and others. Interesting tliou<j;h they certainly are, they are extremely disheartening to any one looking for earlier remains in this land, — inasmuch as all of them, and more especially the older ones, indicate distinctly a wooden origin more strongly perhai)S than any architectural remains in the Western