The boy travellers in southern Europe : adventures of two youths in a journey through Italy, southern France, and Spain, with visits to Gibraltar and the islands of Sicily and Malta (1893)
Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 425
little of consequence to see in Catania.Syracuse is much smaller and far less prosperous than either Cataniaor Messina; in ancient times it was the most important town in Sicily— 404 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN SOUTHERN EUROPE in fact, it was the most important of all the Hellenic cities. It wasfounded… … PAPYRUS PLANTS. had a prominent place in ancient history, and the name of the tyrantDionysius is connected with it. Many traces of the old city still re-main, but our friends paid little attention to the ruins of temples andancient walls, and devoted themselves chiefly to the Fountain of Are-thusa,…
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