ACRE. 105 
insinuates his own doubt as to the matter of fact. chap. 
'* Some say," observes Fuller, speaking of the 
conduct of the Sultan, " he plowed the ground 
whereon the citie stood, and sowed it with corn : 
butan eye-witnesse'- affirmeththat there remain 
magnificent mines." The present view oi Acre 
vouches for the accuracy oiSandiis. The rematns Remains 
'' ^ of Anticnt 
of a very considerable edifice exhibit a conspi- Building. 
cuous appearance among the buildings upon the 
left of the Mosque, towards the north side of 
the city. In this structure, the style of archi- 
tecture is of the kind we call Gothic. Perhaps 
it has on that account borne, among our coun- 
trymen ^ the appellation of " King Richard's 
Palace r although, in the period to which the 
tradition refers, the English were hardly capable 
of erecting palaces, or any other buildings of 
equal magnificence. Some pointed arches, and 
a part of the cornice, are all that now remain, 
to attest the former greatness of the superstruc- 
ture. The cornice, ornamented with enormous 
stone busts, exhibiting a series of hideous dis- 
torted countenances, whose features are in no 
(2) Sandys, p. 204. I^ondon, 1637. 
(3) "There are," says Sandys, "the mines of a Palace, which jet 
(loth acknowledge K'w.s^ Richard for the founder : conjlrnicd lihewise by 
the passant Lyon." This last observatio!! may refer the origici of the 
Iniildinj to the Genoese, who assisted Baldwin in the capture of Acre, 
A. D. 1 104, and had " buildings and other immunities assigned ihem 3" 
the lion being a symbol of Genoa. 
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