The New York herald., 1870-12-25

Cut III tc same cp0cn as Cn0Ye With DeVel draught
Jerusalem. and lhat those oil Jerusalem indicate
The era OF those at PasargadHS
Ths platform, which must be considerably over
500 feet long by 26O feet wide, constructed the
chaste manner have above described what SUPER
structure could Il have upheld? The walls around
il are about twelve feet In thickness Ii must have
been most stately affair, with 100 feet In height OF
a marble platform, gisening White as snow, crown.
Ing this hill, with the city OF Pasargade stretched
south at its feet. In single letter to q newspaper
II would be impossible to enumeraie all the sugges-
tons and supp sitions made by savans. Following
Adrian, Dl0d0rus aud Pllny we must call 1t castle
and NEST splendid II must have been-and rest con-
tent with the fact that here Cyrus tho Great and his
successors were crowned.
Descending the southern slope OF the hill and pro-
ceeding southwest Tor quarter OF a mile we reach
small square building, like tower, built OF the
same kind or nlarD,e as the castle platform. 1t
measures nine eet each face and Is about forty five
feet hlgh The stones used IN Its construction are
perfectly smooth. In It's northern front there APP
been door, and bit OF cornicc Is still left on tho
summit OF one Of the wallis
Four or five hundred yards from this south, pro-
ceeding over cultivated ground we came TO pillar
or pyl0n column, and the best description l can
give O IL Is tnat II you place two Sarc0phagl on end,
one the other, you have an exact Imitation oil
IL. Three sides VI this column are perfectly level;
Ias sr and e ssss Of NV ody Hs o
raj ncaes. On the norlh side OF the column are
some Cuneiform characters.
Further south few yards IL an artificial platform,
on which are three more OF these hollow blocks ON
end. These are oil marble, aud one oil them mas The
same cunelform inscription. On examining mere
closely this platform ind IL Is the defined area OF
vast hall, measuring 38 feet long by 50 feet wide.
cording to measurement taken twice with the tape
ue. traced ten peuestals OF darA blue siaestone,
such rs are those Of the bull men spAinXes
al Persepos. Around the sides OF the pedestals
were portions OF the sculptures, which formerly
were in DassoreevO, on them. On one are the legs
and feet with claws, on another legs and feet with
hoofs another has the legs oil man; oil are as
purely defined as II tney had been nut sculptured
yesterday On one side OF this hall there are three
entrances the principal one being seven feet wide
the two smaller being but four feet nine inches wide
1he door Jambs were square monolithic columns OF
dark blue slatestone sculptured, as may see by
the legs and feet OF the mythical beings visible on
what Is LEFT OF Inc jambs In the centre OF this
Is singular column OF white marble, perfectly
smooth and round, consisting OF four pieces, pro-
badly nfy feet in height. NTH piece OF 1t lies on
the ground close by, and Is Used by the women Ol
the Eeiant ooers 70 pound corn iu. It's clrcamer-
ence Is ten feet SIX inches.
Now, the pedcstals Of bucish satestone which
have noticed nust have been, when intact about
twelve feet In height; yet the base OF thus solitary
column Is not seen above ground. What could have
been Its purpose? May it be taken for pillar which
upheld statue. similar to the column Of Minerva,
la the centre Of the ParthenOnf II has inscrlp-
t0n, but Is perfectly bare, and Its diameter Ia too
small " suppose that 1t supported anything but