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“It may be a vain speculation, but it seems impossible to look at this wood-cut (no. 149), and not to be struck with its resemblance to the temples of southern Babylonia. The same division into stories with their cells: the backward position of the temple itself: the panelled or pilastered basement, all these points of resemblance, it seems difficult to regard as purely accidental.”