The Achilleion at Corfu 
southern end of the terrace, contribute much 
to the general beauty and harmony of this 
section of the garden. 
The formal arrangement of this terrace is 
worthy of a word of special mention. In 
the exact center and in a direct line south of 
the great statue at the northern limit is the 
statue of the coming midshipman, a little 
sailor lad in knickerbockers, jersey and tam- 
Achilleion, and certainly the most striking 
phenomenon of this altogether phenomenal 
spot. Its deep recesses of stucco half hidden 
to-day beneath a heavy, clinging growth of 
vines, gives no little promise from without of 
intricate windings and subterranean passages. 
The visitor, peering somewhat timidly into 
these cavernous openings, is startled at 
seeing in the distance a diminutive garden of 
THE EASTERN END OF THE COLONNADE 
Statues of Orpheus and Theseus on the right and left of the Palace Entrance 
o-shanter who sits upon the side of his 
diminutive bark intent upon the nautical 
chart laid open before him. About the base 
of the statue is clustered the finest collection 
of flowers in all the garden, and overtopping 
it is a splendid specimen of the magnolia 
tree. 
Back of the statue at the extremity of the 
terrace and forming a part of the marble 
approach to the second garden above, is the 
grotto, one of the charming sights of the 
great beauty and of equally great distinctness, 
catching in his line of vision the play of 
muscles in the back of a second sailor lad, 
the gentle waving of many palms, the tufted 
helmet of a fallen warrior, and beyond all 
these the blue of the sea, and hill rising upon 
hill in unbroken succession till lost in the 
clouds above. One’s scattered faculties are 
neither quickly nor easily reassembled to the 
task of persuading the mental eye that it has 
merely seen in these mirrored depths the 
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