Eight journeys abroad (1917) (14580280277)

Identifier: eightjourneysabr00rose (find matches)
Title: Eight journeys abroad
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Rosengarten, Mary D. Richardson, 1846-1913 Rosengarten, Frank H
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel Algeria -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Egypt -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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out by nine oclock that morning at Girgenti tosee the temples and were much more impressed by them thanthose at Psestum. The present town of Girgenti, the oldAgrigentum of the Romans is w^here the Acropolis was and isvery high and looks as if it had grown there, so admirably doesit tone in with the grey of the mountains. Almost half waydown to the sea and on high plateaus are the temples, first ofJuno, with only a few columns standing, then Concordia,almost complete, except that all decorations of stucco andcarving have disappeared with time. Then Jupiter, wrecked 541 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD by an earthquake and colossal. The great columns appearedto me as large or larger than the largest Egyptian ones andthere were giant caryatides upholding the pediment all theway around the inside, as large as the giant recumbentRameses. It must have been something too wonderful for the modernmind to comprehend. There are excursions to Segesta andSalinuntum or some such name, where there are colossal
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THE CATHEDRAL OF PALKRMii ruins, but I imagine the dirt and discomfort would betoo great for us. We were glad to get into a comfortablehotel again. In the morning visited the cathedral and the royal palace,where the wonderful Capella Palatina is, completely linedwith mosaic and a roof of Moorish carving. In the afternoonwe took a carriage for the whole afternoon to go to Monreale.On the way out numerous automobiles passed us at frightfulspeed, and at the bottom of the ascent to the monastery wewere informed that carriages could go no farther as there was to be a trial race. 542 ITALY We found the Higginsons with their lady friend and a Mr.Cramer who crossed on the Celtic with us, in the same fix;as the dust was frightful we decided to go on in the trolley,which we did very comfortably and saw the church and clois-ters at our ease. I suppose nothing exists elsewhere to becompared to the mosaics of the church and the columns ofthe cloisters. On our way back we stopped at the Villa Tasca