This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...The steps are polished by ancient use, so as to have become slippery, and they have rather an inconvenient inclination over the chasm. I ascended them, however, as did my companion, without harm. The third terrace is inaccessible. Seen from the second, it has the appearance of the mouth of a cavern. I threw into it ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: ...The steps are polished by ancient use, so as to have become slippery, and they have rather an inconvenient inclination over the chasm. I ascended them, however, as did my companion, without harm. The third terrace is inaccessible. Seen from the second, it has the appearance of the mouth of a cavern. I threw into it several stones, which disturbed some wild fowl who found shelter there. They soared aloft, with much noise, amongst the higher peaks of Parnassus. CHAPTER XVIII. DELPHI. South-east of the fount, and at the distance of three or four hundred yards, are the remains of the ancient gymnasium. A part of its site is occupied by a church dedicated to the Virgin. The location is known from the description of ancient writers, and is clearly identified by some massive walls, probably the terrace which supported the structure, which are in excellent preservation. The church has been rebuilt once or oftener, has still some ancient pillars (four) in its vestibule, and other fragments of marble in its walls. Indeed, there seems to be a prevalent ambition to distinguish not only churches but private houses, and these mere cottages or mean hovels, with some noble vestige of antiquity. You see fragments of precious and finely-wrought marble in the walls of a stable. The houses, built of huge bricks baked in the sun, have their corner-stones from the huge blocks which formed the terraces of Delphi.. The combination is grotesque, but not uninstructive. It is a mighty and quite unparalleled display of modern skill and enterprise, to remove one of these masses from its place, and raise it a Ancient Structures. 159 few feet in a modern wall. Indeed, they are seldom seen more than two or three feet high. It is hardly' conceivable by what art this fallen and uncivilized ...
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Good. Frontis, vignette title, map, 2 illustrations, xxi, [13]-323p. Original cloth. 19 cm. Backstrip frayed at ends and faded. Lacks front free endpaper. Light to moderate foxing.
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