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 The Hall of a Hundred Columns. 325 the peculiar features of Persepolitan architecture, to which reference has already been made more than once (Fig. 57). By setting up in imagination, the original brick wall, 3 m. 25 c. thick, which con- «r*-^i — ^ 1 i tf>w^ Fic 159.— Tbe Hall of • Hnmlrad Colnmm. FtAMUiK and Cobtb» Dene a$t€kimet Plate CXLIX. nected these minor buildings with one another, we get the whole area which it embraced, when close examination of the floor of the latter will satisfactorily bring home the fact that no bearing -wall stood here. Of ancient structures nothing remains save frag- uiyici^LU Ly Google