Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . THE ACROPOLIS AT ATHENS. In the centre of the court-yard of the mosque was abeautiful fountain, ornamented with that light tracery workwhich is characteristic of Saracenic architecture. An im-mense number of pigeons had assembled there at that timeto be fed, as some kind Mussulman had left a legacy toprocure grain for the daily feeding of the pigeons which 854 GRANTS TOUR belonged to the mosque. They nearly covered the yard,and children were walking about in the midst of them;without causing th
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . THE ACROPOLIS AT ATHENS. In the centre of the court-yard of the mosque was abeautiful fountain, ornamented with that light tracery workwhich is characteristic of Saracenic architecture. An im-mense number of pigeons had assembled there at that timeto be fed, as some kind Mussulman had left a legacy toprocure grain for the daily feeding of the pigeons which 854 GRANTS TOUR belonged to the mosque. They nearly covered the yard,and children were walking about in the midst of them;without causing them the least alarm. Such is the friend-tship between man and the brute creation in Mussulmancountries. The next point of interest was the city of the points visited by the travellers was the Acrop-. THE THEATKE OF BACCHUS. olis. It is thus described: — Having obtained the neces-sary ticket of admission, we ascended it by a pathway thatwinds up the eastern side. On our way we passed theTheatre of Bacchus, which lies near the foot of the Acrop-olis, on the same side. Here were performed the trage-dies of Sophocles, ^schylus, and Euripides. The seatsof the spectators and a part of the fagade yet remain. Thetheatre was open to the air, and/like all the other Grecian AROUND THE WORLD. 355 theatres, it was placed upon the side of a hill. The seatsfor the audience were cut out of the earth, and rose inamphitheatrical form from the scene, which lay at the footof the hill. In this theatre Demosthenes received thecrown of gold which was voted to him for his repair ofthe fortifications, and for other services. The Acropolis is a precipitous hill of rock rising fromthe bosom of the Athenian plain. Like most of the otherGreek towns, Athens was built around the base of the 1 A
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