A Short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, And the Morea
A Short Visit to the Ionian Islands, Athens, And the Morea
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Demetri, (the patron saint of our servant*— a circum- stance to which be alluded with a kind of exultation) which stood at the foot of the liilly and from that, the rain still continuing, we were driven back to our vessel.
The remains of the temple are tolerably perfect. The columns exposed to the 8outh«east are much corroded by the wea- ther; but on the opposite side are but little damaged. The temple is what I believe is technically called hexastyle and peripteral, that is, it has six columns... at each end, with a colonnade along the sides ; of which, with the cella or interior, enough remains to give a good idea of what it once was. The sculptured marbles which were on the pediment have been long since re- moved to Munich, the King of Bavaria bavmg purchased them soon after their Digitized by Google 224 EGINA MARBLES.
discovery, for nearly 6000/. The trusted of the' British museum had offered a much larger sum, but by the mismanagefiiefit'of their agent were too late. ' * * ' ' In our walk of several ^miles' to Shd from the temple, we passed^ at the itiosrt, but half a dozen houses, and about the same number of human beings ; th^ arable soil, however, appeared well diiltivatedi and the mountain sides were covered with immense flocks of goats.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Demetri, (the patron saint of our servant*— a circum- stance to which be alluded with a kind of exultation) which stood at the foot of the liilly and from that, the rain still continuing, we were driven back to our vessel.
The remains of the temple are tolerably perfect. The columns exposed to the 8outh«east are much corroded by the wea- ther; but on the opposite side are but little damaged. The temple is what I believe is technically called hexastyle and peripteral, that is, it has six columns... at each end, with a colonnade along the sides ; of which, with the cella or interior, enough remains to give a good idea of what it once was. The sculptured marbles which were on the pediment have been long since re- moved to Munich, the King of Bavaria bavmg purchased them soon after their Digitized by Google 224 EGINA MARBLES.
discovery, for nearly 6000/. The trusted of the' British museum had offered a much larger sum, but by the mismanagefiiefit'of their agent were too late. ' * * ' ' In our walk of several ^miles' to Shd from the temple, we passed^ at the itiosrt, but half a dozen houses, and about the same number of human beings ; th^ arable soil, however, appeared well diiltivatedi and the mountain sides were covered with immense flocks of goats.
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