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These mountains seem from a distance to be clad with snows. On them lies a citadel, built by devils, 'a Cacodæmonibus extructa, so stoutly fortified that its peer could not be found in any province of Christendom. Among them I saw one sailor so nimble that scarce could any man be compared with him." Journeying on to Canterbury, our pilgrim proceeds: "There we saw the tomb and head of the martyr.
"It is worse," said Mike, "than the Middle Temple Hall far worse; but I like this old colonnade, there is something so suggestive in this old inscription in bad Latin. 'Vetustissima Templariorum porticu Igne consumptâ; an 1679 Nova hæc sumptibus medii Templie extructa an 1681 Gulielmo Whiteloche arm Thesauör."
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