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 NÛRAGHS. 25 some kind of division or door formerly stood, shown by exist- ing archways which communicated with a circular hall or chamber six or seven metres high (Fig. 12). The stonework is corbelled, forming an oblong dome measuring four or five metres at the spring of the arch. This mode of construction is observable in the passage and the side chambers, shortly to be described, where the stones slightly overlap each other so as to 6 :jzzx O^ -i-Lvr. Fig. 12. — Plan of the Zuri Niiragh. Fig. 13. — Transverse section, showing back of the From Gouin. Zuri Niiragh. From Gouin. Fig. 14. — Transverse section, showing front of the same. From Gouin. Fig. 15. — Longitudinal section of the same. From Gouin. form an incline. A certain amount of care was bestowed on the facing, of which the stones are well cut and do not show the joints, enabling the eye to travel from the base of the wall to the extremity of the slope in a continuous line to the top, which is sufficiently narrow to allow of a single stone, sometimes of considerable thick- ness, to fill up the gap. 1 Our engravings will enable the reader to form a clear idea of the interior arrangement. In the first trans- 1 La Marmora, Voyage en Sardaigne, p. 40.