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Chapter III: The Temple Over the Cañon, Segesta

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EVERYONE advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I went; but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Cañon. There I saw Nature’s compositions: here was one made by man--finer, though not so big--for bigness has nothing to do with art.

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FROM TEMPLE TO TEMPLE, GIRGENTI

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Joseph Pennell's Pictures in the Land of TemplesChapter III: The Temple Over the Cañon, Segesta

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