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. 1838 Excerpt: ...the excavations, is truly fine, a little urchin, the height of my knee, was calling to me 'Cenza (eccellenza) guardate che bellissima colonna, ' and pointed to a square natural column, or huge pilaster, of the rock. I smiled at the little dear, and clearly saw what the traveller must expect to meet with, where ...
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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. 1838 Excerpt: ...the excavations, is truly fine, a little urchin, the height of my knee, was calling to me 'Cenza (eccellenza) guardate che bellissima colonna, ' and pointed to a square natural column, or huge pilaster, of the rock. I smiled at the little dear, and clearly saw what the traveller must expect to meet with, where stammering toddlers are taught the jargon of ciceroni. "We visited the church of St. Giovanni, and descended with torches into its sub-terranean cemetery. Drear and awful are these long, obscure, and narrow streets, these narrow dwellings among which they pass. A rockpierced city, built with the scooping-axe; it has been populous, though with silent crowds; not a bone is left: you look around, and see no end of the long passages; you turn, and ask to be led again into the bright and warm sunshine. We rode to the Capuchin convent, standing westward from Ortygia, and beyond the site of Acradina. Here is a latomia in the garden, presenting a most picturesque object; large fragments and masses of the rock have fallen, and plants, and grass, and creepers, have clothed them and it, as painters, travelling with their sketch-books, would delight to find them. We returned by the small galley-harbour, lying also west of Ortygia. "In the afternoon of this day I took a boat with two of our party, and we rowed across the harbour to the mouth of the small river Anapus, got out for a few minutes, while our boatmen dragged her over the sandy bar, and again stepping in, were rowed or pushed with poles, or dragged, by catching at branch and rush, far up the stream to where the papyrus plant, a tall, dark-green reed, with a stately top of thin threadlike filaments, bows to the breeze. About half-way you pass a sweet spot, where the waters of the brook Cyane mee...
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