Excerpt from original source: It is a singular monument of the last siege, when it was stricken by one of the marble balls used by the Turks in their heavy pieces of ordnance; which it is supposed must have partially spent ere it fell upon the tower, as although its weight rove it to the very earth, cleaving through the heavy masonry, and forcing the two portions asunder, it failed to overthrow either; and there,after the lapse of centuries still stands...(110)
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Imprint: W. H. Bartlet. 33. E. Benjamin. London, Published for the Proprietors, by Geo: Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane
Excerpt from original source: It is a singular monument of the last siege, when it was stricken by one of the marble balls used by the Turks in their heavy pieces of ordnance; which it is supposed must have partially spent ere it fell upon the tower, as although its weight rove it to the very earth, cleaving through the heavy masonry, and forcing the two portions asunder, it failed to overthrow either; and there,after the lapse of centuries still stands...(110)
Notes:
Imprint: W. H. Bartlet. 33. E. Benjamin. London, Published for the Proprietors, by Geo: Virtue, 26, Ivy Lane
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Ιόλη Βιγγοπούλου
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