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Title: A tour around the world by General Grant. Being a narrative of the incidents and events of his journey
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 Voyages around the world
Publisher: Philadelphia, Chicago (etc.) The National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ertook to put them on the bases prepared forthem, and exacted for his services the privilege of keeping agaming table between them. In the year 1529 the privilege wasrescinded by the Republic. The great attraction of Venice is the Cathedral of St. Mark.It stands at the head of the square of the same name, with afront of one hundred and fifty-six feet. It is divided into fivearches, and has five entrances. Its length is two hundred andforty-one feet, and the width at the cross one hundred and eighty-eight feet. The style of architecture is Byzantine. It was builtsome six hundred years ago, and the columns that have beenused, from their varied styles and colors, are believed to havebeen taken from the most ancient edifices of Greece, and fromthe destroyed cities of Erachea and Altino. Standing in thecentre of the square and looking at it, three domes and about adozen small steeples are visible rising above its roof. The fivelofty arches over the doorways each form a half dome, the ceil-
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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, VENICE, SHOWING THE DUCAL PALACE AND THE PRISON. (409) 410 AROUND THE WORLD. ings of which are ornamented with mosaic representations of theembarkation of the body of St. Mark in Alexandria, and its de-barkation at Venice, with other incidents connected with the lifeof this patron saint of Venice. The central arch has a plain bluefield, with stars, executed in mosaic. Over the doorway in thecentre are the four famous bronze horses, which once ornamentedNeros triumphal arch. They were stolen by Constantine theGreat, and carried to Constantinople, just one thousand yearsago. When the Crusaders took Constantinople, in 1205, thehorses were brought to Venice by one Marino Zeno, and ^lacedin their present position. The interior of the cathedral is wonderful for the richness andprofusion of its Oriental marble, and for its carvings, both of theancient and Middle Ages, and its bronzes and mosaics, from thetenth to the eighteenth century. Even the form and style of thisanc

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