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Title: Toward the sunrise, being sketches of travel in Europe and the East, to which is added a Memorial sketch of the Rev. William Morley Punshon
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Johnston, Hugh, 1840-1922 Punshon, William Morley, 1824-1881
Subjects: Punshon, William Morley, 1824-1881 Egypt -- Description and travel Palestine -- Description and travel Europe -- Description and travel Israel -- Description and travel Middle East -- Description and travel
Publisher: Toronto, Briggs
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ded by spacious arcades, and its earth broughtover from the Holy Land. Thence the road lay alongthe Mediterranean, and the mountains grow dim anddistant, except a coast-line of hills, which shone inplaces in the whiteness of their own Carrara marble.All that afternoon the sea lay glittering before us, nowand then snatched from the eye, by hill or tunnel, thesinuosities of the road, or fantastic rocks of a thousandshapes, only to steal upon it again in sudden andbright surprise. At length the sun went down behind the Western L Sketches of Travel. 427 waves, and the pale and veil-like mists that succeedthe sunset, gathered oyer the scene. Soon the queenly-moon rose on high, and the wild and romantic coastslept in her silver light, while below dashed, andglittered the waters of the great island sea. Wereached Genoa shortly after midnight. I did not, during our four days stay in the SuperbCity, owing to the illness of Dr. Punshon, do muchsight-seeing. But I visited a few of the many ducal
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BIKD S-EYE VIEW OF GENOA. palaces for which Genoa is famed, and strolling througntheir stately rows of pillars about a central court ofmarble, where a fountain is always making music,climbing their broad stairs, of the whitest marble, and,entering their spacious rooms, it was not difficult torealize their regal splendor in the days of Genoesegreatness, when their princely occupants ransackedthe earth to adorn them with all that art boasted most 428 Toivard iJie Sunrise ; or^ precious, or royal luxury held most dear; paintingswrought in gold, antique marbles that spoke of thebright days of Athens, carpets and stuffs of the East,her own silver workmanship, mosaics of Florence,draperies of Venice, Carrara and alabaster vases,fountains wreathed in flowers, and sending up theirdiamond and fairy spray. In the Municipal Palacewe were shown the handwriting of ChristopherColumbus (the penmanship of Mark Twain notoriety),his bust, and other mementos of the heroic and ven-turous seaman, the disc

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