Identifier: edgeoforient00russ (find matches)
Title: The edge of the Orient
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Russell, Robert Howard
Subjects: Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner's
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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)rophet, the Queens withered handwas at once made whole, and upon her return toher i)alace she commissioned a Milanese silver-smith named I^rancesco to exxcute this costlyshrine, in the construction of which nearly onethousand pounds of silver Avere used, and, as Fran-cesco received twenty-eight thousand ducats forhis labor, the Queen had a pretty penny to pay fora broken finger. The body of the saint is still inan excellent state of preservation ; the head restson a wooden ))illow which supi)orts a silver crownset with precious stones, while on the forefingerare numerous beautifully chased gold rings saidto have been placed there by the courtiers ofQueen Elizabeth at the time the finger was somiraculously joined to the hand. There are other interesting old churches inZara dating back to the thirteenth century, and
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Z;ini having- richly carved altars and choir-stalls; andthen there are some verj- modern-hjoking build-

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