x. _The House or Temple which (together with the Treasure Chambers _y_, and Buildings _zz_ on each side of the Separate Place) is more particularly describ'd on the second Plate._ * * * * * _A Description of the Inner Court & Buildings for the Priests in Solomons Temple._ [Illustration: _Plate_ II. _p. 346._] ABCD. _The Separate Place._ ABEF. _The Inner Court, or Court of the Priests, parted from the Separate Place, and and Pavement on the other three sides, by a marble rail._ G. _The Altar._ HHH. _The East, South, & North Gates of the Priests Court._ III. _&c. The Cloysters supporting the Buildings for the Priests._ KK. _Two Courts in which were Stair Cases and Kitchins for the Priests._ L. _Ten Steps to the Porch of the Temple._ M. _The Porch of the Temple._ N. _The Holy Place._ O. _The most Holy Place._ PPPP. _Thirty Treasure-Chambers, in two rows, opening into a gallery, door against door, and compassing three sides of the Holy & most Holy Places._ Q. _The Stairs leading to the Middle Chamber._ RRRR. _&c. The buildings for the four and twenty Courses of Priests, upon the Pavement on either side of the Separate Place, three Stories high without Cloysters, but the upper Stories narrower than the lower, to make room for Galleries before them. There were 24 Chambers in each Story and they opend into a walk or alley, _SS._ between the Buildings._ TT. _Two Courts in which were Kitchins for the Priests of the twenty four Courses._ * * * * * _A Particular Description of one of the Gates of the Peoples Court, with part of the Cloyster adjoyning._ [Illustration: _Plate_ III. _p. 346._] uw. _The inner margin of the Pavement compassing three sides of the Peoples Court._ xxx. _&c. The Pillars of the Cloyster supporting the Buildings for the People._ yyyy. _Double Pillars where two Exhedræ joyned, and whose interstices in the front _zz_ were filled up with a square Column of Marble._ Note _The preceding letters of this Plate refer to the description in pag. 344 345._ * * * * * CHAP. VI. _Of the Empire of the _Persians_._ _Cyrus_ having translated the Monarchy to the _Persians_, and Reigned seven years, was succeeded by his son _Cambyses_, who Reigned seven years and five months, and in the three last years of his Reign subdued _Egypt_: he was succeeded by _Mardus_, or _Smerdis_ the _Magus_, who feigned himself to be _Smerdis_ the brother of _Cambyses_.