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 Royal Buildings at PASARCADiB. 273 must have resem- bled the two we have just de- scribed. As to the inner disposi- tion nothing can be advanced. On one of the heights, at the foot of which runs the road from Shiraz to Ispahan, are confused remains, marked on the map, " Ruins of a town." Towards the northern ex- tremity of the plain, over whose surface ruins are scattered about, occurs a far more attractive monu- ment It is a massive block of freestone, known as the Takht-i- Soleiman (the Stage of Solo- mon), in length 232 m. 72 c, with a perpendicular wall (where least damaged) that still attains a height of 12 m. 75 c. (Fig. 138). Nothing could be simpler than the plan of the struc- III' i'll 1 ••••• •••• Digitizeu l> ^oogle