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ORIENTATION OF MASHONALAND TEI)fPLES.--In all the less ruin- oils temples of Mashonaland there is obvious evidence in the decora- tion on their exterior walls of orientation to either th_e rising or the setting sun at one of the solstices. The decoration on the great temple consists of a double band of chevron pattern, which extends along the part of wall directly opposed to the rays of the rising sun at the midsummer solstice. The time of the occufrence of the sol- stice was marked by means of a high monolith which would receive the shadow of another monolith placed on the wall at the middle of the decoration when the sun rose at the midsummer solstice. The great temple at first glance seems to be roughly elliptical, but when carefully measured its walls are found to be built on a number of circular curves of different radii. The great tower has a diameter at its base of 17.17 feet, and this length multiplied by the ratio of circumference to diameter (3.14) or by the square of this ratio gives either the radius or the diameter or half or double of these of the curves of all the walls of the best period which we have measured in Mashonaland.-Swan in Scoftish Grog. Mag.., Scpt., 1892, p. 485.