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CHAPTER VI--ARCHITECTURE
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This basement, which has a height of between seven and eight feet, is surmounted by a cylindrical tower in two stages, the lower stage measuring fourteen and the upper, which is domed, ten feet.

The basement is composed of four great stones, the entire tower above it is one huge monolith.

An unusual and very effective ornamentation crowns both stages of the tower, consisting of a series of gradines at top with square machicolations below.
The other monument of the pair, distant about twenty feet from the one already described, is architecturally far less happy.

It is composed of four members, viz.

a low plinth for base, above this a rectangular pedestal, surmounted by a strong band or cornice; next, a monolithic cylinder, without ornaments, which contracts slightly as it ascends; and, lastly, a pentagonal pyramid at the top.


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