text:  Awe-stricken had we surveyed those monuments of "immemorial antiquity" in that baleful region of wild-eyed buffaloes and birds of prey--temples to death in the midst of his undisputed domains! We had fully adopted Forsyth's sentiment and held Paestum to be probably the most impressive monument on earth; but here at Segeste a nature less austere and more RIANTE in its wildness lent a quite different charm to a scene which could scarcely be represented by art and for which a reader could certainly not be _prepared_ by description