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EXTENT AND
geographical dimensions, as contrasted with those of other countries of which
the World, as then known, consisted, will not fail to suggest reflections of no
uninteresting kind, to an observer of the parts which Nations have played
as well as Men,—of the achievements which they have performed, of the
influence which they have exercised, and of the position which they occupy
in the history of the universe.
The superficial extent of Attica is estimated
at seven hundred square miles: its greatest length
is fifty, and its breadth thirty miles. If it is
1 compared in size with some of the provinces
of Europe, and much more with the wilds of
Africa or the forests of America, it sinks into the insignificance of some
baronial estate, or of a private allotment in a colonial dependency. This, it is
evident, is the case if we look at its physical dimensions. But from a
consideration of these we pass to another view of the subject. While,
EXTENT AND
geographical dimensions, as contrasted with those of other countries of which
the World, as then known, consisted, will not fail to suggest reflections of no
uninteresting kind, to an observer of the parts which Nations have played
as well as Men,—of the achievements which they have performed, of the
influence which they have exercised, and of the position which they occupy
in the history of the universe.
The superficial extent of Attica is estimated
at seven hundred square miles: its greatest length
is fifty, and its breadth thirty miles. If it is
1 compared in size with some of the provinces
of Europe, and much more with the wilds of
Africa or the forests of America, it sinks into the insignificance of some
baronial estate, or of a private allotment in a colonial dependency. This, it is
evident, is the case if we look at its physical dimensions. But from a
consideration of these we pass to another view of the subject. While,