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punished.’ 3 If, upon the capture of the city, ev#fy building 
belonging to the Christians had been levelled with the earth, 
it is not more than might be expected in this enlightened age, 
from the retributive spirit of a victorious army, whose feelings 
have been similarly outraged. Fuller, indeed, asserts, that the 
conquerors, upon that occasion, “evened all to the ground, and 
(lest the Christians should ever after land here) demolished all 
buildings.” But the same author, upon the testimony of 
■Sandys, afterward insinuates his own doubt as to the matter of 
fact. “ Some say,” observes Fuller, speaking of the conduct 
of the sultan, 4 - he plowed the ground whereon the citie stood, 
and sowed it with com: but an eye-w finesse-* afSrmeth that 
there remain magnificent mines.” The present view of Acre 
vouches for the accuracy ofSaqdys. The remains of a very 
considerable edifice exhibit a conspicuous appearance among 
the buildings upon the left of the mosque, toward the north 
side of the city. In this structure, the style of architecture is 
of the hind we call Gothic. Perhaps it has on that account 
borne, among our countrymen,! the appellation of “ King Rich¬ 
ard's Palace although, in the period to which the tradition 
refers, the English were hardly capable of erecting palaces, or 
any other buildings of equal magnificence. T wo lofty arches, 
and part of the cornice, are all that now remain, to attest the 
former greatness of the superstructure. The cornice, orna= 
merited with enormous stone busts, exhibiting a series of hide¬ 
ous distorted countenances, whose features are in no instances 
alike, may either have served as allusions to the decapitation 
of St. John, or were intended for a representation of the heads 
of Saracens, suspended as trophies upon the walls. But there 
are other ruins in Acre, an account of which was published hi 
the middle of the seventeenth century, by a French traveller;]: 
whereby it will appear, that many edifices escaped the ravages 
of the Saracens, far surpassing all that Sandys has described, 
or Fuller believed to have existed. A reference to this work 
will be here necessary, as many of the remains there mentioned 
escaped the observation of our party, notwithstanding a very 
diligent inquiry after the antiquities of the place; and nothing 
can be more lamentably deficient than the accounts given of 
* Sandys,p. 204. London, 1637. 
j “ There are,” says Sandys, “ the ruines of a palace, which yet doth acknowledge 
King Richard for the founder: confirmed likewise by the passant lyon.” This last ob¬ 
servation may refer the origin of the building to the Genoese, who assisted Baldwin 
in the capture of Acre, A. D, 1104, and had “ buildings and other immunities assigned 
them the lion being a symbol of Genoa. 
x Voyage de la Terre Saintej fait Ban 1652, par M. I, D<rubdan. Parts-, 1657, 
