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III. The Temple Over the Canyon, Segesta, in Segesta, Trapani, Sicily, Italy more
temples, ruins, hills, mountains, sketches, ancient greek remains
Everyone advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I wemt, but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Canyon. 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.” (p. 3)
[I have modernised the spelling from CaƱon to Canyon - Liam]