Page:Letter from John Turtle Wood to John Winter Jones, 1868-12-22.djvu/2

 which, I presume, may be that built by Damianus, as described by Philostratus. This Portico has fairly led me on to the Ground demonstrated on the Plan submitted to the Trustees, as that upon which the Temple of Diana might have stood. For a distance of more than 700 feet of the way at present opened up, there is a continuous line of tombs and sarcophagi which appear to have been substituted for the pieces of the Portico for a considerable length on the East side while those on the West side remain intact sarcophagi being placed between them.

The original pavement of the road is about 11 feet below the present surface for about 600 feet. The accumulation is chiefly owing to the repairing and making good of the road for many centuries after its original formation as I find it made up to contain 3 feet of the present surface, to cut through this has in many places been a work of time and hard labour. I have been careful to clear only the eastern or outer side of the way leaving the gaps unexplored wide enough to admit of a road sticking