Horneman further informs us, that the ancient building which he describes, stood in the _centre_ of the area, and partly on a rock; and at the same time observes, that the ground generally throughout the area was broken and dug up in search of treasure; from which may be inferred that formerly there were _other buildings_ within the inclosure. On this head it is almost unnecessary to cite ancient authorities; it will appear from a view of the well known ruins in Greece, Sicily, and the Magna Græcia, &c. that the ancients often availed themselves of one and the same circumvallation, and erected different temples within the general inclosure; so, in the Achaicis of Pausanias, cap. cxx. the temples of Minerva and of Diana Laphia are within the same boundary of wall, without enumerating the many other instances in that curious journal; or to the three temples actually remaining at Pæstum, &c. within the inclosure of one and the same wall. In reference to the subject more immediately under consideration, the _Ammonian temples of Juno and Mercury_ were in high repute with the Greeks, as mentioned in the Eliacis, p. 416, edit. Kuhn: and these temples were probably within the same inclosure as that of Ammon. The temple of Ammon being the principal, might be supposed to be erected in the _centre_ and _on the rock_, which strong foundation may have in part yet preserved it, whilst the foundations of the others more easily dug and broken up, have brought those edifices low to the ground; and hence the very materials (as we are told) have been carried away, and no vestiges remain but of the area of the earth having been disturbed and heaped, as the work of search, dilapidation, and pillage was carried on. Fourthly, Mr. Horneman was shewn, at the distance of half a mile from the ruins, “_a spring of fresh water, which takes its rise in a grove of date trees, and in a most romantic and beautiful situation_.” This description precisely answers to that of the _Fountain of the Sun_, mentioned by ancient writers: and the distance from the chief temple too, seems to agree. “Haud procul arce _extrinsecùs_ alterum Hammonis fanum jacet, quod multæ arbores proceræ inumbrant, et _fons proximus est_, ὀνομαζομένη Ἠλίου κρήνη·” Diod. Sic. Tom. II. p. 199. So too Curtius, “Est etiam aliud Hammonis nemus; in medio habet fontem; _Aquam Solis vocant_.” Lib. iv. cap. 7. Thus far the merely descriptive accounts agree. If a further point can be ascertained, it will be conclusive, and the beautiful spot visited by our traveller, be identified as that of the Fountain of the Sun, situated _extrinsecùs_, or without the inclosure, in which stood the principal temple of Ammon.