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CLASSICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL
TOUR THROUGH GREECE.
CHAPTER I.
General remarks, and miscellaneous customs. Soil and climate of Attica. Provisions. Music of modern
Greece. Dances. Complaints made at Constantinople against the Voivodo of Athens. Intrusion
of the Disdar into the bath of Turkish women—his discovery and danger—his flight to iEgina, and
clandestine return to Athens—his concealment in the author's house. Visit of the author to the
Disdar's wife, and their perilous situation. Superstitions of the Athenians. The Evil, or Envious
Eye. Games of the modern Greeks. Birds of Attica. Reptiles—Insects. Compendium of the
final history of Athens, and its capture by the Turks:
Ihere is no country in the world, of the same extent as Greece,
where the climate, soil, and aspect, exhibit such discordant varieties.
The pages of ancient history do not bring us acquainted with any
region where the forms of government were so many, and so diverse, or
where the genius of the people displayed such opposite characteristics.
This comparatively diminutive1 tract of Europe, was distinguished by
1 The length ot Greece from north to south is three hundred and fifty miles ; its breadth
tW° hundred and fifty.--,Robertson's Hist, of Greece.
V°t. II. B
TOUR THROUGH GREECE.
CHAPTER I.
General remarks, and miscellaneous customs. Soil and climate of Attica. Provisions. Music of modern
Greece. Dances. Complaints made at Constantinople against the Voivodo of Athens. Intrusion
of the Disdar into the bath of Turkish women—his discovery and danger—his flight to iEgina, and
clandestine return to Athens—his concealment in the author's house. Visit of the author to the
Disdar's wife, and their perilous situation. Superstitions of the Athenians. The Evil, or Envious
Eye. Games of the modern Greeks. Birds of Attica. Reptiles—Insects. Compendium of the
final history of Athens, and its capture by the Turks:
Ihere is no country in the world, of the same extent as Greece,
where the climate, soil, and aspect, exhibit such discordant varieties.
The pages of ancient history do not bring us acquainted with any
region where the forms of government were so many, and so diverse, or
where the genius of the people displayed such opposite characteristics.
This comparatively diminutive1 tract of Europe, was distinguished by
1 The length ot Greece from north to south is three hundred and fifty miles ; its breadth
tW° hundred and fifty.--,Robertson's Hist, of Greece.
V°t. II. B