Identifier: holylandwithglim00phel (find matches)
Title: Holy Land, with glimpes of Europe and Egypt
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Phelps, S(ylvanus) D(ryden), 1816-1895. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (8th ed.) New Haven, C. C. Chatfield & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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wer.It is a beautiful marble structure, fifty-three feet indiameter at the ba^e, and about one hundred andeighty feet high, inclining toward the south more thanthirteen feet from the perpendicular. My first viewof the Mediterranean was from its top; and whatthoughts such a sight awakens? The waters of thatsea lave the shores of Palestine, and are linked withthe stirring events of ancient and modern history. Aprophet was once cast into it, and an apostle wreckedupon it. At Leghorn, a considerable commercial town, wetook steamer for Civita Yecchia, the port of the PapalStates, where we arrived in about twelve hours ; andafter many annoyances and taxes of patience and purse,we were on the railway for Pome. 116 A RIDE — ROME IN VIEW. A ride of three hours, at the slow rate of Italianrailroads, and through a country uninteresting inappearance, brought us in sight of the walls andtowers of the Eternal City, and we were strain-ing our eyes to catch a glimpse of the grand Tomeof St. Peters.
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IX. §0inf—Its €\\m\m—Z\t Mitmx—%Ml Rome! How interesting tlie place! How suggest-ive the word! What a train of associations itawakens ! The records of the past are unrolled; greatcharacters in history stand before us ; and events thatfilled the world with their grandeur and significanceseem to be transpiring again. Who has not desiredto see Rome! What student of classical literature,what lover of eloquence and poetry, what admirer ofart, and mental power in its various exhibitions, hasnot longed to visit Rome, and wander amid the ruinsof its former greatness and glory ?—to look upon theSeven Hills where the city of the Caesars was en-throned—to walk beneath the massive arches wherethey led their triumphant processions—to muse amidthe broken columns of the Forum, where Cicero andother orators swayed assembled throngs—tu lingerunder the shadow of the Coliseum, and think of theexciting scenes it once witnessed—and to trace thefootsteps of the great Apostle to the Genti

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