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 264 GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE. Pakt I. Temple of Apollo at Bassa?, in Phigaleia (Woodcut No. 146), and in fact to all the regular Greek temples. Indeed it seems impossible to account for the peculiarities of that temple except on some such theory ns this. Any one wlio studies the ]i]an (Woodcut No. 146) will see at once what pains were taken to bring the internal columns exactly into the spaces between those of the external peristyle. The effect inside is clumsy, and never would have been attempted wen it not that practically their position was seen from the outside, an this could hardly have been so on any other hypothesis than tlint now proposed. An equally important point in the examination of this theory is that it applies equally to the exceptional ones. The side aisles, for instance, of the great temple at Agrigentum were, as before mentioned, lighted by side windows; the central one could only be lighted from the roof, and it is easy to see how this could be effected by introducing openings between the telamones, as shown in Woodcut No. 151. Another exceptional temple is that at Eleusis, which we know to have had windows and shutters above, used ii: admitting or exclu- ding the light during the cele- bration of the mysteries. The arrangements of this temple lend themselves admirably to this mode of introducing light, as shown in the plan and section annexed (Woodcuts Nos. 152 and 153). The great Temple of Jupiter Olympus (Woodcut No. 154) was apparently lighted according to another system, owing probably to its immense height, and other pecu- liarities of its construction. The liirht seems to have been intro- duced into what may be considered 15-. Plan of Temple of Ceres at Eleusis. Scale 100 ft. to 1 in. 153. Section of Temple of Ceres at Eleusis. Scale 50 ft. to 1 in.