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Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Jeremiah, x: 10.)--'But the Lord is the true God,
he is the living God, and an everlasting king; at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to
abide his indignation.' Jeremiah is supposed to have written the words referred to above about B.C. 600. In this very year
Pherecydes, the philosopher, was born, and this was a flourishing period of the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture in
Athens. The Parthenon, fallen columns of which are shown in the above picture, was the most beautiful specimen of Doric architecture
ever seen. Looking upon these pieces of broken marble as they lie scattered on the Acropolis, we can not help feeling the
force of the words of Jeremiah:'The nations of the earth shall not be able to abide his indignation.' In no other nation has
architecture come to such high and exquisite perfection as in Greece, but it was all consecrated to idolatry." "Vol. 2" and
"L" are printed beneath the text
An area of ground is filled with rows of fallen, broken columns; in the valley below, houses can be seen
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