He stands on the beach here, and claims, by inscription on his pedestal,
to have belonged to the apostolic times, St Peter
himself having, he says,
appointed him to his bishopric. He is patron
of Taormina,
where he has possessed himself of a Greek temple; and
he also protects the faithful
of Giardini. Lucky
in his _architects_ has been St Pancras; for many of our readers are
familiar with his very elegant modern church in the New Road, modelled,
if we have not
forgotten, on the Erechtheum, with its _Pandrosean Vestries_, its
upright tiles, and all the subordinate details of Athenian architecture.
We _
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