[152] Chambers.
[153] Chambers.
[154] Clarke.
[155] Barthelemy.
[156] The whole circumference of the walls measures eighteen miles; the number of mural towers is four hundred and seventy-eight.
[157] "This fact," continues Dr. Clarke, "has been so well ascertained, that it will, probably, never be disputed." "The guardians of the most holy relics," says Gibbon, "would rejoice if they were able to produce such a chain of evidence as may be alleged on this occasion." The original consecration in the temple of Delphi is proved from Herodotus and Pausanias; and its removal by Zosimus, Eusebius, Socrates, Ecclesiasticus, and Sozomen.
[158] Lord Sandwich.
[159] Hobhouse.
[160] Sandwich.
[161] Clarke.