CHAP. 97. (96.)—PLACES IN WHICH IT NEVER RAINS.
There is at Paphos a celebrated temple of Venus, in a
certain court of which it never rains; also at Nea, a town
of Troas, in the spot which surrounds the statue of Minerva:
in this place also the remains of animals that are sacrificed
never putrefy[1].
1. It has been observed, that there are certain places where bodies
remain for a long time without undergoing decomposition; it depends
principally upon a dry and cool condition of the air, such as is occasionally found in vaults and natural caverns. See the remarks of
Alexandre in Lemaire, i. 424.