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322 JOTJBNAL OF,AN. EXCURSION FROM
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now ground strai , and ht . in before another us half simp -hour lemajestic the Temp and le came most again solemn in in sight its _* :
isolation . g After standing , a few , minutes , at this point , we went forward , and got down into the fosse that surrounds the _uTemple to ;
take shelter from the wind , which at this height and in this exposed all place hungry was blowin we unpacked g quite our a gale basket . And pulle moreover d out our , as invaluable we were ; :
little very Etna , and , heated the tea which we , had brought ready made in a Jbottieand so we made a most comfortable breakfast ; after
which , streng , thened and refreshed , we all wandered away over the brow of the hill southward to see the Temple from another point ;
and after a while I found a place , where by planting the great umbrella firmly in the ground just behind me , I was protected
from the wind enough to be able to paint . As this Temple is built after the same plan as all such Temples that I have ever seen
( thirty--six columns in all ) , and as every one is perfectly familiar with their general appearance from prints , any description would
be useless . Whether or no such a Temple is impressive and _s p ervation icturesque , This depends Temp entirel le of y Segeste on its position probably and was its never state entirel of pre y -
. finished , as , although in every other respect perfectly well preserved , there is no trace of the pavementnot even one slab to be seen . It
, is believed to have been built about the latter half of the fifth century before Christ ; therefore the subjugation of the city to the
Carthaginians in the year 409 B . C ., may have been the cause of its remaininincomplete . As it now stands , alone in this desert of
mountains , and g hanging on the edge of a deep rocky ravine , grown with the storms of centuriesand yet glowing with the
brilliant gray yellows of the lichens that , cover the stone , it is a picture _xinequalled in the world .
We felt tied to the place , and were most reluctant to mount our mules again , even to ascend Monte Barbaro to visit the Theatre .
We had been most fortunate in the day . The wind brought hurrying up thick black clouds , which swept by , cooling the air with
a shower , and making * more wild a scene that already made one's heart stand still to look upon . Kunning round to the end , to get
a few lines of remembrance from that point , I was absorbed in my workwhen Janet brought me a cup of the most delicious goat ' s
milk . , We had seen the herd _skijoping over the rocks above the ravine , and had been delighted with the delicate tinkle of their
little bells , and now we all appreciated the refreshment they gave now iis , b cleared efore starting away , and over the Monte wind B had arbaro sunk home , and . it was clouds the most had
lovely evening imaginable . As we scrambled up on our mules to the brow of the hill we
passed evident remains of fortifications _; which , however , are
probably of Saracenic construction ; but quite on the summit , are
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1863, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071863/page/34/
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