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The present condition of the site tends ‘to decry rather than to enhance the proportions and architectural value of the monument. The hill on the top of which it has been built is low and irregular, overlooking a plain of waving palm trees. There is a dreary view of distant volcanoes and the indented peaks of a line of high mountains, from some hundred feet above the plain, which is the highest point of the shrine.’