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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1004#0288
Of Janina much has been said and written. Its site and surrounding
objects are as familiar to all as descriptions and sketches can make them.
Its history, society, and government have all received due notice; antiquities
it has none. The city certainly, perhaps even its lake, is but a few centuries
old. The place now possesses less interest than was recently the case, and
has fallen into comparative decay with the fortunes of AH Pasha, its late
extraordinary master,
A few steps lead us from the palace of Ah" to his grave. It is a simple
tomb of white stone, shrouded over with some wild plants growing above
it. It affords a striking evidence of the vanity and emptiness of all the
eulogies which have been lavished upon the political prudence and sagacity
' of this Napoleon of Greece. They would indeed have been worth s
objects are as familiar to all as descriptions and sketches can make them.
Its history, society, and government have all received due notice; antiquities
it has none. The city certainly, perhaps even its lake, is but a few centuries
old. The place now possesses less interest than was recently the case, and
has fallen into comparative decay with the fortunes of AH Pasha, its late
extraordinary master,
A few steps lead us from the palace of Ah" to his grave. It is a simple
tomb of white stone, shrouded over with some wild plants growing above
it. It affords a striking evidence of the vanity and emptiness of all the
eulogies which have been lavished upon the political prudence and sagacity
' of this Napoleon of Greece. They would indeed have been worth s