The exact emplacement of the second upon the first is also doubtful, while the original mode of access is undiscovered; and thus the plan of the building is in many respects still defective.

We only know that it was a square; that it had two stories at the least; and that its entire height above the plain considerably exceeded 100 feet.

The temple at Mugheir has been more accurately examined.

[PLATE VIII., Fig.

2.] On a mound or platform of some size, raised about twenty feet above the level of the plain, there stands a rectangular edifice, consisting at present of two stories, both of them ruined in parts, and buried to a considerable extent in piles of rubbish composed of their debris.