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the stones in which he should find gold, thinking that I
knew from my books where it was to be met with. The
people had spent much time and trouble in cutting pedestals
in pieces, imagining from their having inscriptions that they
contained treasure. They have in several instances been
fortunate, and I saw a split stone which from its form had
probably been a kind of altar ; into this they had cut, and,
concealed in a hollow in the centre, they had found, they
said, much gold money. There are in the village below
some traces of foundations, and many squared stones and
handsome cornices, and several fluted columns lie about the
fields.
In the burial-grounds I saw some Christian columns; and
a large handsome trough in the town was also of the same
date, having two angels carved in the front. A number of
Byzantine coins have also been found in the town. How
much it is to be regretted that the introduction of a divine
religion should have unnecessarily put to flight all the
divinity of art! The language of Demetrius of Ephesus
was prophetic. In architecture and in sculpture the Cross
is a brand always attended by deformity in proportion, and
total want of simplicity in ornament.
April 1st.—"We left the valley of Alaysoon in a snow-
storm, which had covered the ground nearly a foot deep ;
and, after mounting a hill toward the south, descended into
another valley, in which no snow had fallen, and where the
wheat was six inches high, while in the country through
which we had passed it had not even been sown. The
mountains were also beginning to be clothed with trees,
but no bursting leaves yet bespoke a spring in this still
elevated region. Another valley succeeded, and the coun-
try became far more picturesque than any that we had
passed through for many weeks. The village of Sadecooe
lay on our right. I here first saw the common black
crows of Europe; also many red ducks, and a white
125
? fte founda.
on ascenfc
- ren«
> omamentei
pedestals 01
• may law
imagine tier
•*- beauti
the Beats mj
w walls of I
voices and
si rouncli
lid abo
le walnut-trs
From iti
filtered 05
3 • igetk
ind its inBOf
;:.isanek
Am cliaracte
ith masks ffll
hlv-workedd-
iflny of I
was a pile I
ent fa '
. -::uation £
The ton-
i
>h architects
uation u
dbytlv
vould p
the stones in which he should find gold, thinking that I
knew from my books where it was to be met with. The
people had spent much time and trouble in cutting pedestals
in pieces, imagining from their having inscriptions that they
contained treasure. They have in several instances been
fortunate, and I saw a split stone which from its form had
probably been a kind of altar ; into this they had cut, and,
concealed in a hollow in the centre, they had found, they
said, much gold money. There are in the village below
some traces of foundations, and many squared stones and
handsome cornices, and several fluted columns lie about the
fields.
In the burial-grounds I saw some Christian columns; and
a large handsome trough in the town was also of the same
date, having two angels carved in the front. A number of
Byzantine coins have also been found in the town. How
much it is to be regretted that the introduction of a divine
religion should have unnecessarily put to flight all the
divinity of art! The language of Demetrius of Ephesus
was prophetic. In architecture and in sculpture the Cross
is a brand always attended by deformity in proportion, and
total want of simplicity in ornament.
April 1st.—"We left the valley of Alaysoon in a snow-
storm, which had covered the ground nearly a foot deep ;
and, after mounting a hill toward the south, descended into
another valley, in which no snow had fallen, and where the
wheat was six inches high, while in the country through
which we had passed it had not even been sown. The
mountains were also beginning to be clothed with trees,
but no bursting leaves yet bespoke a spring in this still
elevated region. Another valley succeeded, and the coun-
try became far more picturesque than any that we had
passed through for many weeks. The village of Sadecooe
lay on our right. I here first saw the common black
crows of Europe; also many red ducks, and a white