| Show pisa and its tower pisa is ii a very pretty city located on the river arno tho the same stream which runs through florence years ago pisa was one ODD of the tha groa greatest test seaport towns on the mediterranean a rival ot of genoa and venice with which cities it waged frequent wars it also took a prominent pron ineat part in ia the wars against the infidels fighting many success fal buttles battles against t tho he saracena saracens Sara Sar cens later on there existed a great rivalry between the tha bisans end and the tha florentinus florentines Floren tines the history of tho the city at this time being one of continual fights against the florentinus florentines Floren tines to whom it finally became mud and remained subject fori formerly erly tho the sen sea washed the a walls of the town gradually during the past years tile the sea BOB hike has been slowly receding from the city leaving behind it banks ot of sand and earth until now it is six miles from the water to the town and from a flourishing seaport doing business over a all 11 of tho the with a naval fleet 1 set which ahio h for a long time WM wei he be terror barror of hostile countries play has degenerated into what night might almost be called an B inland town with no busi ness mesa to speak of so BO that today to day it pro seats to the eye tho the picture of a quaint sleepy deep old place lace entirely wrapped up I 1 in itself golf le the inhabitants going their usual round day after day neither k knowing i ng nor oaring caring for the world outside tile the arno here is much prettier thin than at florence and ili ia a large stream more entitled to the name mama of river ou on each bank Is ia a fine large quay whish extends to tho the limits ol of the town here is a fine broad walk on which the people are accustomed to promenade it is ia very pleasant to walk along here ia the evening anti and watch the setting man GUD with its many colored lights reflected tod in the river at your side the quaint houses with their old gabled roofs covered with red tiles an and d their tall chimneys possess a new charm when touched by the tha glowing colors and the surrounding mountains are moro more beautiful thiu thau ever with their summits tipped with the golden lines hues gradually the scone changes olun fainter bud and fainter become t the he outlines until the last ray of departing sunlight disappears a ard darkness hides things f from rain your view now comes the lamplighter and its as if by magic down the river on both sides appear a row of store stars growing dimmer as the al distance stanco increases inor oases then the native envelopes himself in lis bis cloak and disappears looking like some ghost of 11 hamlet only illy to reappear again at some cafe in an together altogether different character tile the great sights to moo aeo in pisa are th the a four mentioned they ore grouped together in the extreme northern norther a end of the city in a bunch and within a tones stones throw of each other of them all U the most moat noted is the leaning tower you hove have heard of it it if you t the he pleasure plea suro ot of seeing it and aall may think of it as one of the 11 seven wonders 1 an unexplainable explainable nn one it is ia a very curious carious structure overhanging thirteen feet feel from the perpendicular standing on tho the unsafe silo aide should there be a possibility of its coming over and looking up at the top the effect is startling beyond anticipation you certainly think lor for the instant that it is ia going to fall over on you even after standing all these years jours the idoft idea of the instant is to got get out 0 of I 1 the we way but reason says saye tool 1001 I 1 was to lot let in my y heart come up in my threat that way and you yon a tand stand and look longer and more minutely now that the master reason lime bas satisfied I 1 you 0 U that what I 1 you on first thought is not likely to bome to pago faeo it t fall over though you yon mo 1 rily think it will lor for the last tiro five or six six centuries 1 I believe the tower w VIM as commenced in 1174 and finished in NOO 1350 it has ban been standing that way puzzling people by its crookedness the ino rains and tho the winds and I 1 lie bo a have buys descended during this time and yet the tower stands with masonry masonry nas onry me B solid as ai the day it was waa ce cemented together and it is ia likely to stand as a curiosity for tourists to look at aud and wonder over for years to come I 1 mounted to the top by what seemed an endless stairway tempted by the day which was waa a as a fine and clear as aa any which colorado or other countries noted tor for their fine atmospheres could boast of the stairs are spiral while ascending on one side you feel as aa it il you yon were climbing almost perpendicularly while on the be other half bait the direction in which the tower leans you yon feel lie if 11 you wore were going down it is a very peculiar sensation looking from froia the top over the unsafe side aide us as I 1 call it it is a impossible not to feel be as if you abre were going to fall over even avon reason for the moment does not allay the feel ing which seems to say lay 11 on or you are lost the fhe tower tover is a curiosity well worth betag the popular belief which I 1 think very likely cor root is is that the foundations sunk smirk on one side when the tower wax was a little more than halt half completed to remedy the evil 0 of f its falling over the lilt hit two stories wore were built perpendicularly giving a funny effect to ta the building which now looks As c it if it was trying to brace itself up and resume its position as an upright member of the family of towers it little knows how much interest its crookedness inspires inspire were it standing a craight tra ight it be only an ordinary companile like hundreds of others and berh perhaps po not so 80 pretty so 80 it Is ia in I 1 life thre there are hundreds ot of men who are like the ordinary towers one sees ones i every day and thinks nothing of but ant thera are a few men one would travel far to see bull and whom one would look at with curiosity as something different from the ordinary run of 0 men let ter in brooklyn lagle eagle |
