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THE TEMPLES OF Gozo AND MALTA. intended to be less elaborate than the first or it was never finished (Fig. 224). The method of construction at the Gigantcia is identical with that at Hagiar Khu ; we find the same irregularity and the same use of huge blocks in both. One block, marked c on the plan Fin. 223. The cone of the Giganteia. Height about 40 inches. Fr.mi La Marmora. (Fig. 225), and the largest in the building, is twenty-two feet six inches long, ten feet eleven inches high, and three feet seven inches wide. One great pier is twenty feet three inches high. 1 The plan is more complicated than that of the temples at Gozo, but the FIG. 224. The Giganteia, longitudinal section of the second temple through the line n M. From La Marmora. same fondness for ellipsoids is to be traced in the shapes both of the building as a whole and of the separate chambers. There! 1 We borrow these particulars from the first description ever given of these ruins : it was published after the excavation of 1840 under the title: Description of an Ancient Temple near Crendi, Ma I fa, in a Letter from J. G. Vance to M. Carlisle, in the Archceologia, vol. xxix. pp. 227-240. This description is accompanied by six wretched plates. Not long afterwards attention was called to the same ruins by M. CH. LEXORMAXT, who spoke of them in a letter addressed to M. Cesar Daly at the beginning of one of his voyages to the East (Monuments phenieiens de. Malic. in the Revue gencrale de P Architecture et des Trareaux publics, 1841, p. 497 and plate 21). Our plan and the details of Hagiar Kim which we here reproduce are taken from the plates in M. Caruana's Report and from the photographs given with it.