A History of All Nations
by S.G. Goodrich
1856
PISA, on the Arno, near its mouth, was once the rival of Florence in wealth and population. It is now a decayed place, with deserted streets. Its great curiosity is the leaning tower, a work of the middle ages. This edifice is nearly two hundred feet high, and overhangs its base fourteen feet; yet it has stood for many centuries without any tendency toward a fall. Pisa has twenty thousand inhabitants.
