. Eight journeys abroad. ENTRANCE TO THE AMPHITHEATRE, SYRACUSE were gathered into the Fortress itself. The palace of Diony-sius was above all in solid stone. The view of Mt. Aetna fromhere was colossal. It seemed to hang in the clouds. Fromthere we came back to the Greek theatre. Just as I happenedto look up I saw May Reeves standing in the door! I thoughtI was dreaming and I jumped up and sure enough it was she,with her uncle and Miss Tyson. They had arrived at Syracusefrom Girgenti and saw our ship in the harbor and sent out an 455 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD invitation to dine with them at the V
. Eight journeys abroad. ENTRANCE TO THE AMPHITHEATRE, SYRACUSE were gathered into the Fortress itself. The palace of Diony-sius was above all in solid stone. The view of Mt. Aetna fromhere was colossal. It seemed to hang in the clouds. Fromthere we came back to the Greek theatre. Just as I happenedto look up I saw May Reeves standing in the door! I thoughtI was dreaming and I jumped up and sure enough it was she,with her uncle and Miss Tyson. They had arrived at Syracusefrom Girgenti and saw our ship in the harbor and sent out an 455 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD invitation to dine with them at the Villa Politi, but we didntget it, and so they came on board. We sail at midnight and it is now about eleven, and theyare just gone. I must finish so as to post this to-morrowmorning at Malta. The Greek theatre was a magnificent ruin,an out of door theatre with seats cut out of solid rock and. EAR OF DIONYSIUS, SYRACUSE immense. More interesting to me were the quarries and theEar of Dionysius, about which I have read but never expectedto see. It is cut out of solid rock and way up in the top is alittle opening where Dionysius is supposed to have sat tolisten to the talk of his victims in the prison below. Theslightest sound can be heard perfectly in every part; the pic-tures give you no idea of it. A church near by was mostinteresting, as the oldest Christian church in Syracuse and has 456 THE MEDITERRANEAN incorporated an old Greek temple. In the crypt is where preached three days and it is so intensely old and all ofsolid rock one cannot but be immensely impressed. Then wewent into the catacombs, which are finer than those in was first a place of burial and the tombs are thick and close,solid stone coffins and later were places of refuge. The firstBishop was martyred in the chapel where St. Paul preached,I think it would be interesting for you to borrow so
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