Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . d delio:ht. Tis the work of fairies! exclaimed Fanny. Or the enchanted palace of some magician, said Minnie. Oh dear! said Dora, they look like beds of silver radishes,all growing through the earth with their roots hanging down. And there, said Fanny, is a round waiter of frosted silver,half filled with beautiful shells. And here, said the guide, is something we must not over-look. What does that look like f he inquired, directing their at-tention to an angular nook. As I liv
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . d delio:ht. Tis the work of fairies! exclaimed Fanny. Or the enchanted palace of some magician, said Minnie. Oh dear! said Dora, they look like beds of silver radishes,all growing through the earth with their roots hanging down. And there, said Fanny, is a round waiter of frosted silver,half filled with beautiful shells. And here, said the guide, is something we must not over-look. What does that look like f he inquired, directing their at-tention to an angular nook. As I live, exclaimed Fanny, promptly, there is a greatshoulder of mutton hanging on the wall! I perceive, said the guide, pleasantly, that the young ladyknows something of housekeeping. This fine room is called Sol-omons Temple, and this corner, for the sake of consistency, is Sol-omons Meat House. I should have thought, said Porte Crayon, that the mag-nificent and all-accomplished Solomon would hardly have com-mitted such a crime against good taste as to hang his meat in sucha temple as this. THE TEMPLE AND CATHEDRAL. 87. SOLOMON S TEMPLE. And yet, replied the guide, a greater tlian Solomon placedit there. True, true. In the midst of her sublimest passages, Naturewill sometimes step aside to play the farceur. Ascending a stairway similar to that by which they entered,and on the opposite side of the Temple, our travelers pursued theirmarvelous journey, not in profound silence, as at first, for the sen-timent that paralyzed their tongues had given place to pleasantconfidence and eager curiosity. Again they call a halt, while the guide nimbly leaps from pointto point, illuminating, as he goes, the wonders of the the centre of this room hangs a mass of spar which bears afancied resemblance to a chandelier, while beyond it rises the pul-pit, an elevated circular desk covered with the most graceful foldsof white drapery. On the opposite side is a baldachin, enrichedwith glitter
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