The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-08-01

o o space across winch COuio "
IN case OF siege, a powerful .
ron chain. These datas are gwen
rom the statement of our guide, VINO y
thoroughly conversant with tne ?
topography of Athens, and evidently 2
has read her ancient history rather l
carefully. For the benefit OF visitors 9
To Greece. | may mention that John \
Couraca. the guide alluded TO-, Is !
moderate in his charges, and oeihg :
a native Of Ithaca can tell Of the
localities and relics there pointed oU'
As commemorative of Ulysses.
While walking with him, We met
two ladies, perhaps twenty aud tFen-
~ two years Of age, SISTERS promeha-
ling with their mother. we nadJust
asked him REGARDING the Maid OF
Athens" There" said he, are
two who greatly surpass her in beau
~. as I knew her thirty years ago"
We were indeed compelled to acknOIi-
edge that rarely had we seen finer
specimens of physical beauty, as re-
garded stature, symmetry OF form,
and face, grace of movement and
modesty of manner. Yet take the la
dies of Greece generally. they do not
give the impression of classical out
line of feature, and, although. many
are good looking, the average would
scarcely equal those Of several more
northern nationalities.
THE ISLAND OF sAUToRINI COR AN
GENT THERA.
As%certaining, on our arrival at syria,
that a three hours view (and that oh
tanned through the politeness of the
Greek Steamship Company, at the
kind request of W. Sapunzaki. the
| Consular AGENT would delay US one
| entire week, and that q more extend
ed view would retard our voyage to
| Beyroot two weeks, We Reluctantly, at
| ter considerable elaboration, voted it
most prudent to remain, for the pres
ent, content with Prof. Mitsopoulos'
description, which l subjoin from
recollection.
As far back as 1873, and again in
1850, 1907 and I'LL, volcanic phe.
nomena had been observed on and
around this Island, and finally, about
twenty years ago, the attention of the
scientific public was called to the phe
nomena more actively developing
themselves. Prof. Mitsopoulos visited
the Island and remained there several
weeks. On n occasion they had
gone near enough to light their cigars
at the glowing materials erupted, and
had to run for their lives, taking shell
ter under a great projecting rock as
the burning masses began totall. Two
vessels were destroyed, the Captain of
one being killed, besides other indi-
viduals. On their vessel q burning
rock penetrated the deck and set fire
to the engineers bed.
The Athenian astronomical OBJ
server being with the professor. shsr-
ing q night telescope, they could see
flames at night, which appeared to be
from a burning fluid like petroleum,
and could notice in the interior of the
elected lava, glowing. The flames
could not be gaseous, because they
evidently hoated on the surface of the
rocks like a fluid.
Prof. Mitsopoulos differs somewhat
in his estimate Of the character at.
tributable to these phenomena, as
described by the learned Leopold
Won Buch, who, not having visited
the scene of action, took his data, for
determination, from the evidence OF
others.
A noted Athenian photographer,
1 MI A~OH0ldALAuE9 &CCNLlU aulGA Il
party, and photographs are to be had
showing the Island, with its houses,
etc., as before the action, during it's
progress, and after partial quiescence.
The Professor thinks the character,
instead Of being considered as eIup
ton, should be considered as O vol
canie subsistence. Part of the Island
in disappearing has formed a semi
circular bay, in which gradually sank
7 houses and lands on both sides of an
anticlinal axis, like the two slopes OF
a roof, the ridge opening at the same
time, and, eventually. giving out
/ much eruptive material, chiefly lava
in places, dense; in others, porous;
and the action terminated by form
ing four crateriform depressions in
the great assure, upon which the
spectator can look down from the ad-
joining eminences. Three drawings,
+ shown me, taken from the same
stand-point-the first, July, 1867; the
second, November Of the same year;
and the third, in the Summer OF 1868,
show, by comparison with the old
and stationary portions, { gradual
central elevation, without eruptiye
/, violence, except occasionally, when
Az NAHA0 maACAA4AS pL0NOAG LBG GkESSS
, of the gas, which then forces itself a
vent with decorating violence.
THE ISLAND OF SYRIA AND ITS CAPT
: tai. HERMOUPOLIs. (ToWn of Mer-
! cury.)
! After a somewhat rough passage
: from the Pir8us, on the Greek vessel
"Eunomla," leaving at 6 P. NJ, and
! steamIng all night, we arrived this
r morning and traversed H~ermoupalis,
the great commercial emporium OF
t Greece, under the guidance Of Pietro
q TedeschO, who has innumerable tes.
: timonials from Americans. Ennlisb
, and Germans, of his honesty and abiI.
lty as a dragomen for Greece. hayipp
I lived there many years, although a ma
E tive Of Venice. He speaks GreaE
. English and French, and of conrse
his native tongue, Italian. He took
US first to the top of the hill com.
handing the town, from which look
ing east, we had a fine view over sew
en- of the Cyclsdes, beginning with
the most northerly and turning the
. eye gradually to the most soutberlv.
! Andros, limos, Miconia, Delos, Max.
S los, Paros and Antiparos. We.
tnen, from SYRIA (the name applied to
: ne | town on top of the mica slate
e and metamorphic marble hill,) sur
/ yeyed beneath Us the new town OF
Hermoupolis,. OF Hermopolis, as some
write IT, with its fiat roofs, white mar.
BILE or brightly plastered aud white.
!, washed walls, giving a dazzling bright
: effect. This town dates from 1921,
when the Greek refugees from Turkish
provinces, after the unsuccessful rev.
olution, moved from many points to
, this place, and has now $4,000 iuhab
itants. In the new part reside The
; Governor, Harbor Master and Other
public fun~ctionaries, Foreign Con.
, suls, &c. The church of San Nicolas
r in this quarter, is elegantly construct,