Note 484 — THE TRAVELS OF BERTRANDON DE LA BROCQUIÈRE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Two of these galleries, or porticos, called by our author cloisters, as well as the columns, still exist. These last are formed of different materials, porphyry, granite, marble, &c.; and this is the reason why the traveller, not being a naturalist, represents them as being of various colours. [484]