Part of his journey was performed by sea.

On arriving and unpacking his chests, he found that the sea-damp had unglued the fragile wood-mosaic, and all his work was spoiled.

This determined him to practise the more permanent art of sculpture.

See Perkins, vol.i.
p.

228.
[110] For further description of the sculpture at Rimini, I may refer to my _Sketches in Italy and Greece_, pp.