Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . alian, who hadthus admirably gratified his wishes, that when the edificewas finished he sent for him, j^ronounced a warm j)ane-gyric on his work, and then had his eyes put out, in orderthat he might never build such another! A strangecaprice of cruelty, if true — punishing the man, not forfailing, but succeeding, in gratifying his employer. 440 GRANTS TOUR The entire structure is far from forming a whole, forno main building is discoverable in this architectural maze;in every one of the towers
Grant's tour around the world; with incidents of his journey through England, Ireland, Scotland .. . alian, who hadthus admirably gratified his wishes, that when the edificewas finished he sent for him, j^ronounced a warm j)ane-gyric on his work, and then had his eyes put out, in orderthat he might never build such another! A strangecaprice of cruelty, if true — punishing the man, not forfailing, but succeeding, in gratifying his employer. 440 GRANTS TOUR The entire structure is far from forming a whole, forno main building is discoverable in this architectural maze;in every one of the towers or domes lurks a separatechurch, in every excrescence a chapel; or they may belikened to chimneys expanded to temples. One towerstands forth prominently amid the confusion, yet it is notin the centre, for there is, in fact, neither centre nor side,neither beginning nor end; it is all here and speaking, this tower is no tower at all, but a church,and the chief one in the knot of churches, the Church ofthe Protection of Holy Mary. This tower is one hundredand fifty feet in GENERAL VIEW OF THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW. Another important place beheld by the visitors was theKremlin. It is said that while in the process of building,the builders sought the shelter of one of its gates, and thussheltered, the Tartars passed them by. Even the presenceof the temple-plundering Gauls, according to the Eus-sians, only served to increase the renown of this thought the frame of the picture was of gold, and
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