This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...of the mountain. As it promised to be a ruin of some interest, we halted to visit it, but although not five hundred yards distant, we were nearly twenty minntes in reaching it, having to force our way through the entwined limbs and branches of arbutus, and other shrubs, covering the ground. The tower is nearly square, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847 Excerpt: ...of the mountain. As it promised to be a ruin of some interest, we halted to visit it, but although not five hundred yards distant, we were nearly twenty minntes in reaching it, having to force our way through the entwined limbs and branches of arbutus, and other shrubs, covering the ground. The tower is nearly square, and exceedingly well constructed with rectangular blocks of limestone. It contained three stories: in the front of the uppermost are a doorway and window, still perfect; but in the lower, there are only narrow apertures for the admission of light. Near the tower we saw a single sarcophagus. We could find no inscription to give any information of its name or history; but our time did not permit of our examining many yards beyond the walls. At about a mile beyond the tower, the road begins to ascend through a steep ravine or watercourse; its bed is filled with loose fragments of limestone that give way at every step. To save the horses from falling, we were frequently obliged to push them from behind or support them by putting our shoulders to the baggage whilst they were led singly over the steepest and most difficult places. We were about two hours and a half thus ascending from the tower before we reached the top of the ridge, where there is a small Hellenic fortress or building, and a few broken sarcophagi, in all about eight; one or two had been inscribed, but the letters were now nearly obliterated. After the fatigue of ascending, we drank with great relish the water half-filling their cavities, although not very tempting from the number of insects and slimy vegetable matter floating in it. Giving the horses a rest for half an hour we continued over the barren, rocky summit of the mountain, at the head of two or three ravines that descend ...
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