brilliancy of the most modern
art and taste. Turning, to make
the contrast more striking, by
looking at the windows and rude
carvings of the houses opposite,
we see a banister or handrail
separates the side-walk from the
carriage way, and are astonished
in steping out to it, to find the
street is some ten feet below us.
We are evidently on the second
floor of the houses. Finding steps
leading down, we descend into the
streets, and discover another tier
of shops, on the roofs of which
we have ben walking." The streets
are most of them excevated out
of the solid rock on which the
town is built. The Town is sur-
rounded by a rock wall about two
miles in extent origninaly built for
defense but now kept in repair to
brilliancy of the most modern
art and taste. Turning, to make
the contrast more striking, by
looking at the windows and rude
carvings of the houses opposite,
we see a banister or handrail
separates the side-walk from the
carriage way, and are astonished
in steping out to it, to find the
street is some ten feet below us.
We are evidently on the second
floor of the houses. Finding steps
leading down, we descend into the
streets, and discover another tier
of shops, on the roofs of which
we have ben walking." The streets
are most of them excevated out
of the solid rock on which the
town is built. The Town is surrounded by a rock wall about two
miles in extent origninaly built for
defense but now kept in repair to
"Letter from Asahel Hart Woodruff, 2 December 1884," p. 7, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed May 19, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/p79m