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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: similar to the machine which with us has obtained so unenviable a notoriety, but which here was 'worked in the open air by six, no doubt perfectly honest, women for the purposes of pressing calico. The next place I visited was Taormina, after passing the Gothic fort of St. Alessis, which had been repaired by English engineers during the late war; passing also Da Forza, a small town which although built high up on the side of a mountain, was described as grievously liable to be afflicted with malaria, and affording an instance of the apparently capricious, but subtle and inscrutable, character of that insidious scourge. Taormina is placed on a most commanding eminence, and is said to have been the last city in Sicily to yield to the Arabian invaders. Here are very interesting remains of an Hypaethral theatre, a Naumachi i, and a reservoir for water, resembling the Piscina mirabilis on the Neapolitan coast; its groined vaulting rests on piers of brickwork coated over with cement 2 in. thick: there are also many tombs of classical character. Among the ruins of the theatre I observed examples of the practice of the Eoman masons of lining the surface of stone with extremely thin slabs, I might almost call them films, of coloured marble. It is open to much question whether this comes under the denunciation f sha s in architecture. The block of common limestone, so lined, presents the appearance of a marble, which it is not, and is therefore so far deceptive; yet a charge of fraud seems scarcely tenable, seeing that the material used is really what it seems to be, although the quantity of the precious substance falls far short of its apparent bulk. I cannot leave Taormina without remarking how these vast ruins testify to the vicissitudes to which the island has been subjected. ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217742863
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 362
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217742866
  • Publisher Date: 20 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 644 gr


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