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352 THE ISLES AND SHRINES OF GREECE
portable art treasures found in the excavations at the
latter place are kept. The town is pleasantly situated
on the hillside. The houses are white and surrounded
with courts and gardens. Stone walls run in all
directions over the slope. There are many indica-
tions of thrift. One seldom sees a cleaner, whiter-
looking Greek village. The streets wind picturesquely,
and a fine road runs up the hill into the country. We
walked into an old palace garden, where the grounds
are still well kept, though it is no longer used as a
palace. There is an archaeological hospital filled with
broken legs, hands, arms and heads, but with some
interesting fragments and well-preserved inscriptions.
It is melancholy to think of the havoc that time and
vandalism have made with the treasures of art; but
an enthusiastic archaeologist can go into raptures over
a head or a foot as an anatomist can wax eloquent
over a single bone.
It was late in the afternoon when we rounded
Sunium and found the smoother water on the west
side of the Attic peninsula; but it was not too late to
have a view of the temple of Athene on this command-
ing headland. The Acropolis and the Parthenon were
shrouded in darkness as we sailed up to the Piraeus,
but we knew they were there.
portable art treasures found in the excavations at the
latter place are kept. The town is pleasantly situated
on the hillside. The houses are white and surrounded
with courts and gardens. Stone walls run in all
directions over the slope. There are many indica-
tions of thrift. One seldom sees a cleaner, whiter-
looking Greek village. The streets wind picturesquely,
and a fine road runs up the hill into the country. We
walked into an old palace garden, where the grounds
are still well kept, though it is no longer used as a
palace. There is an archaeological hospital filled with
broken legs, hands, arms and heads, but with some
interesting fragments and well-preserved inscriptions.
It is melancholy to think of the havoc that time and
vandalism have made with the treasures of art; but
an enthusiastic archaeologist can go into raptures over
a head or a foot as an anatomist can wax eloquent
over a single bone.
It was late in the afternoon when we rounded
Sunium and found the smoother water on the west
side of the Attic peninsula; but it was not too late to
have a view of the temple of Athene on this command-
ing headland. The Acropolis and the Parthenon were
shrouded in darkness as we sailed up to the Piraeus,
but we knew they were there.