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 Bk. IV. Ch. V. DOMESTIC AUCHITECTURE. 365 this its exterior is plain and solid, except on the side next the sea, where it Avas least liable to attack. The other three sides are only broken by the towers that tiank them, and by those that defend the great gates which open in the centre of each face. Scale 150 ft. to 1 in_. 245. Palace of Diocletian at Spalatro. (From Adams.) The building is nearly a regular parallelogram, though not quite so. The south side is that facing the sea, and is 592 ft. from angle to angle ; the one opposite being only -570 in length ; i while the east and west sides measure each 698 ft., the whole building thus covering about 9^ English acres. The principal entrance to the palace is on the north, and is called By an oversight, this difference is not expressed in the woodcut.