. The Burton Holmes lectures;. MEGASPELEON wider but even wilder and more picturesque. Here, how-ever, we behold only the results of Natures efforts toimpress us ; we are now to see how man, as if not satisfiedwith the results achieved by Nature, has created, in thename of religion, at the extremity of this gorge a Pictureof the Impossible, a picture so remarkable in detail, soimposing in ensemble, so utterly unlike anything that wehave ever seen before that I do not know how to describeit in words, nor do I feel that even pictures will suggest the. Tin: .M()Nasit:r\ and nii: lUi !• oi Mi^iiAs
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. MEGASPELEON wider but even wilder and more picturesque. Here, how-ever, we behold only the results of Natures efforts toimpress us ; we are now to see how man, as if not satisfiedwith the results achieved by Nature, has created, in thename of religion, at the extremity of this gorge a Pictureof the Impossible, a picture so remarkable in detail, soimposing in ensemble, so utterly unlike anything that wehave ever seen before that I do not know how to describeit in words, nor do I feel that even pictures will suggest the. Tin: .M()Nasit:r\ and nii: lUi !• oi Mi^iiAsiiCLEtJX GRECIAN JOURNEYS 209 atmosphere of mystery, of medievalism, and above all, theatmosphere of impossibility which envelopes the Monasteryof Megaspeleon. The ascent which presently commences prepares us forthe strange and unexpected. We leave the winding railwayand the river and climb by a zigzag path up through a chaos,where the frowning gray and yellow rocks are masked inpart by fresh green vegetation. A monk returning to themonastery guides us upward. Looking down, we see thepath unwinding below us, like an immense ball of yarn,which rolling down the slope has formed a confusing seriesof loops and curves and angles.
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