. A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey . undred and fiftyfeet above it. From the earliest times this rock has been the siteof a fortress. It rises almost perpendicularly above the city, andwas the site of the citadel and most sacred buildings of ancientAthens. The walls stand on the very verge of the cliff, and havea circumference of nearly 7,000 feet. They are of great antiquity,being the work of many ages—of the Pelagians, of Themistocles,of Cymon, of Valerian, of the Turks, and of the Venetians. Upon the summit of the Acropol
. A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey . undred and fiftyfeet above it. From the earliest times this rock has been the siteof a fortress. It rises almost perpendicularly above the city, andwas the site of the citadel and most sacred buildings of ancientAthens. The walls stand on the very verge of the cliff, and havea circumference of nearly 7,000 feet. They are of great antiquity,being the work of many ages—of the Pelagians, of Themistocles,of Cymon, of Valerian, of the Turks, and of the Venetians. Upon the summit of the Acropolis were located the mostsacred Temples of the city. These were the Propylaea, whichconstituted the entrance to the sacred enclosure, the Temple ofVictory without Wings, which is believed to have been erectedby Cymon, the Parthenon, dedicated to Pallas Athena (orMinerva), the tutelary goddess of the city, the Erechtheium, atemple dedicated to the joint worship of Minerva and Poseidon,or Neptune, and a number of other temples and buildings ofvarious kinds, of which nothing now remains but their THE HOLY LAND, TURKEY, AND GREECE. 40T It would be impossible within our limits to present anythinglike a description of these beautiful ruins, or of the other monu-ments of the past with which the city abounds. They were dulyvisited by General Grant and his party, and during one of the-evenings of their stay in Athens, the King caused the Acropolisto be brightly illuminated in his honor. A visit was made to thebattle-field of Marathon, and on the 18th of March the Generaland his party bade adieu to Athens and embarked once moreupon their ship. A visit was made to Corinth, where severaldays were spent in wandering through the ruins, and then the Vandalia sailed for Syracuse, where a brief stoppage wasmade to visit the ancient city. Then the Vandalia set sailonce more, this time for Naples, where the General and his partyterminated their Mediterranean voyage, and taking leave of t
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