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Though many, the figures we have enumerated represent but a very small proportion of those that once decorated the buildings on the esplanade. There are palaces of which naught remains but a few stones, whilst of those that have least suffered FlO. 199.— PetsepoUs. Royal attendanu. Flanoin and COSTI^ Peru antientu^ flatc CXXXV. a. the upper part of their substructures has disappeared, along with the sculptures chiselled thereon. Fragments, however, of all the more important groups are extant, and they suffice to prove that the destroyed parts had nothing, either in form, type, or workman- ship, which greatly differed from the preserved sections. Our