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Materials used in the Wall of the Enclosure. 169 demonstra- ble the shadow of a doubt — since he who has eyes may- see — that the stone blocks of enormous • length and height, discovered in the sanctuary wall, muster much stronger than had been imagined. To the five courses, the only ones visible at the West Gate, Sir C. Warren, by un- covering the wall at a depth of 23 m., added other twenty- five, consisting of blocks similar in all respects to the upper. As a matter of course, the buried courses, to the number of twenty-three at the south angle for instance, are in better preservation than those exposed. 1 Every- where steps had been cut in the rock to receive the first stones ; in some places this had also been done for the second stones, the back face of which was let in the ridge. 2 The results of the explorations down to the foundation of the haram wall, have revealed two varieties of archi- tectural decoration not observable in the courses above ground — namely, stones with central face " rusticated," 3 " bossed," and stones with central face projected from 50 to 60 c., 4 imparting a strange aspect to I the outer ' tà-hÉM^ : ^W'- m face of the ! wall. That this is not ascribable Fig. 117.— English Excavations at south-east angle of Area. Recovery. 1 Recovery, p> 333. 2 Ibid., pp. 114, 147. l8 3- 4 Ibid., pp. 167, 182. 3 Ibid., pp. ii4) 147. 183.