An account of the discoveries in Lycia, being a journal kept during a second excursion in Asia Minor (1841) (14742342076)

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Title: An account of the discoveries in Lycia, being a journal kept during a second excursion in Asia Minor
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Fellows, Charles
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Publisher: London, Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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VALLEY OF THE XANTHUS. 129 a model for a temple; and the various kinds (for all havethe same character) suggest each some form or order,whose peculiarity has become classic and scientific : it ishere only perpetuated, and not adopted, by the presentpeasants. The storehouses, large box-like barns, in which thegrain and property is preserved, are throughout thisdistrict seen, and recognized by me, as precisely similar,in form and detail of apparent construction of ties andbolts, to the Elizabethan description of tombs so com-monly cut in the rocks around them. These modernbarns are generally slightly roofed ; the gable or pedi-ment supports a pole at each of its angles, the endscommonly protruding beyond the roof, which is of thinplanks, laid one over the other, and giving at the endthe effect of a cornice to the pediment, the whole ofwhich is never so well finished as the barns beneath,and appears as a temporary covering: a slight pedimentis likewise often seen accompanying this form o