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columns and a superstructure resembling this, the scale
alone differing, some of them being of double the dimension
of the one shown in the preceding sketch. It is curious that
such are not be seen out of Caria, and that in its construc-
tion this tomb precisely answers to the description of the
celebrated monument erected to Mausolus in this country,
which was one of the wonders of the world, and from which
we derive the term Mausoleum.
"We are to start from Mellassa to-morrow morning; this
has been a lovely day, the sun and wind drying the deluged
earth; the streams are again finding their accustomed beds,
and we anticipate no further delay. What a change does
a sunny day, after rains, make in a warm climate, at this
season! the flowers may almost be seen to expand. This
morning I wandered over the hill on the south of the town,
and saw the flowers recovering from the beating rains; the
people were all busy cutting the grass from their house-tops,
and every hut had its little roller at work to press down the
wet earth of its roof. In the evening I visited the same
hill, to seek the site of the ancient theatre, the impression
of which alone seems to remain on the south-east side: the
whole hill had burst into a garden of flowers. "Women and
children were decking themselves most tastefully, plaiting
the blue hyacinth into their long hanging locks, and placing
a crest of anemones or marigolds on their foreheads; the
folds of the turbans of the boys were rolled in flowers; the
whole scene was beautiful. Along the valley, for several
miles to the south-east, we traced the ruins of a fine aque-
duct, which formerly conveyed the water from the mountains.
The distant hills were now grey, and tinged with the setting
sun. To the south, at a distance of about six miles, on the
verge of a precipice, stands the town of Paichin, supposed
to occupy the site of one of the celebrated temples of
Jupiter; its situation is worthy of a Greek temple, which,
from the valley, would appear relieved against the sky, the
country beyond being a flat table-land.
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CAEIA.
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columns and a superstructure resembling this, the scale
alone differing, some of them being of double the dimension
of the one shown in the preceding sketch. It is curious that
such are not be seen out of Caria, and that in its construc-
tion this tomb precisely answers to the description of the
celebrated monument erected to Mausolus in this country,
which was one of the wonders of the world, and from which
we derive the term Mausoleum.
"We are to start from Mellassa to-morrow morning; this
has been a lovely day, the sun and wind drying the deluged
earth; the streams are again finding their accustomed beds,
and we anticipate no further delay. What a change does
a sunny day, after rains, make in a warm climate, at this
season! the flowers may almost be seen to expand. This
morning I wandered over the hill on the south of the town,
and saw the flowers recovering from the beating rains; the
people were all busy cutting the grass from their house-tops,
and every hut had its little roller at work to press down the
wet earth of its roof. In the evening I visited the same
hill, to seek the site of the ancient theatre, the impression
of which alone seems to remain on the south-east side: the
whole hill had burst into a garden of flowers. "Women and
children were decking themselves most tastefully, plaiting
the blue hyacinth into their long hanging locks, and placing
a crest of anemones or marigolds on their foreheads; the
folds of the turbans of the boys were rolled in flowers; the
whole scene was beautiful. Along the valley, for several
miles to the south-east, we traced the ruins of a fine aque-
duct, which formerly conveyed the water from the mountains.
The distant hills were now grey, and tinged with the setting
sun. To the south, at a distance of about six miles, on the
verge of a precipice, stands the town of Paichin, supposed
to occupy the site of one of the celebrated temples of
Jupiter; its situation is worthy of a Greek temple, which,
from the valley, would appear relieved against the sky, the
country beyond being a flat table-land.
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