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MAUSOLEUM OF SOLYMAN "THE MAGNIFICENT." 25
At such periods, the terror of a people like the Osmanlis, who not only
connect ideas of comfort and convenience with the pure element, but to whom
it is essential in the offices of their religion, may be readily conceived; and not
the least affecting of its demonstrations is the appearance of a Dervish on the
crest of the Jouchi-Daghi, or Giant's Mountain, whose duty it is to watch for,
and to announce to the thirsting city, the anxiously-awaited appearance of a
small, lowering, heavy cloud, hovering above the waves of Marmora, or the
Euxine—a certain indication of coming rain, which causes the Christian sojourner
in the East to revert at once to the Sacred Volume, whose holy truths are
constantly recalled to his memory in the land of the Infidel.
The artist seized a happy moment in which to transfer to his sketch-book
the Aqueduct of Pyrgo. The sunshine rested lovingly on the old grey stones
of the stupendous pile at one extremity, while the cool shadows of the mountain,
with its flowery mantle of cistus, caper plants, and wild vines, were flung in
soft contrast over the other. A party of travellers, with their serudjhes*
sumpter mules, and araba drawn by buffaloes, were about to halt for their
mid-day meal; and the sounds of human life and human laughter joyously
awoke the echoes of the arch-spanned valley.
Nature and art, the present and the past, were before him; and the result
has been not only a faithful, but a strikingly characteristic sketch.
THE MAUSOLEUM OF SOLYMAN “ THE MAGNIFICENT."
" A dome with convoluted roof, whose fold
Projected o'er a gate of polished stone;
A hoary tree, in stateliness grown old,
The germ of by-past ages, now unknown;
A wild vine wreathing round the regal gold
And azure of the tinted pane; a tone
Of sadness sighing through the lofty gloom
Of a tall cypress." MS. Poem.
A beautiful covered way, leading from the outer court of Solimanie, and
richly trellised with those luxuriant and leafy parasites so common in the East,
leads to the splendid tomb of Solyman; a light and elegant sexangular building
* Grooms.
At such periods, the terror of a people like the Osmanlis, who not only
connect ideas of comfort and convenience with the pure element, but to whom
it is essential in the offices of their religion, may be readily conceived; and not
the least affecting of its demonstrations is the appearance of a Dervish on the
crest of the Jouchi-Daghi, or Giant's Mountain, whose duty it is to watch for,
and to announce to the thirsting city, the anxiously-awaited appearance of a
small, lowering, heavy cloud, hovering above the waves of Marmora, or the
Euxine—a certain indication of coming rain, which causes the Christian sojourner
in the East to revert at once to the Sacred Volume, whose holy truths are
constantly recalled to his memory in the land of the Infidel.
The artist seized a happy moment in which to transfer to his sketch-book
the Aqueduct of Pyrgo. The sunshine rested lovingly on the old grey stones
of the stupendous pile at one extremity, while the cool shadows of the mountain,
with its flowery mantle of cistus, caper plants, and wild vines, were flung in
soft contrast over the other. A party of travellers, with their serudjhes*
sumpter mules, and araba drawn by buffaloes, were about to halt for their
mid-day meal; and the sounds of human life and human laughter joyously
awoke the echoes of the arch-spanned valley.
Nature and art, the present and the past, were before him; and the result
has been not only a faithful, but a strikingly characteristic sketch.
THE MAUSOLEUM OF SOLYMAN “ THE MAGNIFICENT."
" A dome with convoluted roof, whose fold
Projected o'er a gate of polished stone;
A hoary tree, in stateliness grown old,
The germ of by-past ages, now unknown;
A wild vine wreathing round the regal gold
And azure of the tinted pane; a tone
Of sadness sighing through the lofty gloom
Of a tall cypress." MS. Poem.
A beautiful covered way, leading from the outer court of Solimanie, and
richly trellised with those luxuriant and leafy parasites so common in the East,
leads to the splendid tomb of Solyman; a light and elegant sexangular building
* Grooms.