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Travels Through Different Cities of Germany, Italy, Greece and Several Parts of Asia, as the Far as the Banks of the Euphrates, in a Series of Letters by Alexander Drummond
Alexander Drummond
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781130501612
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1754 edition. Excerpt: ...weather. It is the more surprising that these materials are used, as there are many rocks of marble in the neighbourhood: perhaps this choice was owing to the frugality of the people, though that is very seldom consulted in a religious building, upon which a great Over the gate of the governorsis palace, which has been great but not noble, are the arms of Venice, with an inscription which I could not read, because it was overgrown with shrubs and mofs; and these the T urks would not suffer to be cleared away, for they are jealous of they know not what; this, however, was no great disappointment: for, by the few words which could trace, the purport of it was to signify at what time, and by whom the palace was built. I likewise saw another inscription in gothic characters upon St. Sophia, but it was at such a distance that I could not distinguish the letters. In the front of this church, upon the right, aretwo granite pillars, detached from it, with capitals and basesof white marble; and between them stands a Sarcophagus, adorned with sestoons, but altogether uninscribed; which is a very extraordinary circumstance. Why should such expence be laid out upon a burying-place, when nobody knows to whom it belongs? The gateway that leads to the harbour is under a bastion, over the gate is St. Mark, or the winged Venetian lion, infcribed Nicolao Priolo Prefecto, MCCCC XCctVI. lt served for a guard-room, and is finely vaulted in form of a cupola. The harbour is 'good and safe by nature, for no art has been bestowed upon it: from hence into the town, there has been a flood-gate, through which they occasionally hauled their gallies into a dock behind the walls, that they might be secure from the efforts of the enemy. From the inlet of the fossee at
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