The passage in Mungo Park's
_Journal
of a Mission to the Interior of
Africa_, 1815, p.
Africa_, 1815, p.
Byron
"]
[404] {631} This may seem too minute for the general outline (in
Mariner's Account) from which it is taken. But few men have travelled
without seeing something of the kind--on _land_, that is. Without
adverting to Ellora, in Mungo Park's last journal, he mentions having
met with a rock or mountain so exactly resembling a Gothic cathedral,
that only minute inspection could convince him that it was a work of
nature.
[Ellora, a village in the Nizam's dominions, is thirteen miles
north-west of Aurangabad. "It is famous for its rock-caves and temples.
The chief building, called the kailas, . . . is a great monolithic temple,
isolated from surrounding rock, and carved outside as well as in. . . . It
is said to have been built about the eighth century by Raja Edu of
Ellichpur. "--Hunter's _Imperial Gazetteer of India_, 1885, iv. 348-351.
The passage in Mungo Park's _Journal of a Mission to the Interior of
Africa_, 1815, p. 75, runs thus: "June 24th [1805],--Left Sullo, and
travelled through a country beautiful beyond imagination, with all the
possible diversities of _rock_, sometimes towering up like ruined
castles, spires, pyramids, etc. We passed one place so like a ruined
Gothic abbey, that we halted a little, before we could satisfy ourselves
that the niches, windows, etc. , were all natural rock. "]
[405] [Byron's quadrisyllable was, probably, a poetic licence. There is,
however, an obsolete plural, _stalactitae_, to be found in the works of
John Woodward, M. D. , _Fossils of England_, 1729, i. 155. ]
[fs] {632} _Where Love and Torquil might lie safe from men_. --[MS. D.
erased. ]
[406] {633} The reader will recollect the epigram of the Greek
anthology, or its translation into most of the modern languages--
"Whoe'er thou art, thy master see--
He was, or is, or is to be. "
[Byron is quoting from memory an "Illustration" in the notes to
_Collections from the Greek Anthology_, by the Rev. Robert Bland, 1813,
p.
[404] {631} This may seem too minute for the general outline (in
Mariner's Account) from which it is taken. But few men have travelled
without seeing something of the kind--on _land_, that is. Without
adverting to Ellora, in Mungo Park's last journal, he mentions having
met with a rock or mountain so exactly resembling a Gothic cathedral,
that only minute inspection could convince him that it was a work of
nature.
[Ellora, a village in the Nizam's dominions, is thirteen miles
north-west of Aurangabad. "It is famous for its rock-caves and temples.
The chief building, called the kailas, . . . is a great monolithic temple,
isolated from surrounding rock, and carved outside as well as in. . . . It
is said to have been built about the eighth century by Raja Edu of
Ellichpur. "--Hunter's _Imperial Gazetteer of India_, 1885, iv. 348-351.
The passage in Mungo Park's _Journal of a Mission to the Interior of
Africa_, 1815, p. 75, runs thus: "June 24th [1805],--Left Sullo, and
travelled through a country beautiful beyond imagination, with all the
possible diversities of _rock_, sometimes towering up like ruined
castles, spires, pyramids, etc. We passed one place so like a ruined
Gothic abbey, that we halted a little, before we could satisfy ourselves
that the niches, windows, etc. , were all natural rock. "]
[405] [Byron's quadrisyllable was, probably, a poetic licence. There is,
however, an obsolete plural, _stalactitae_, to be found in the works of
John Woodward, M. D. , _Fossils of England_, 1729, i. 155. ]
[fs] {632} _Where Love and Torquil might lie safe from men_. --[MS. D.
erased. ]
[406] {633} The reader will recollect the epigram of the Greek
anthology, or its translation into most of the modern languages--
"Whoe'er thou art, thy master see--
He was, or is, or is to be. "
[Byron is quoting from memory an "Illustration" in the notes to
_Collections from the Greek Anthology_, by the Rev. Robert Bland, 1813,
p.
