St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-11-27

a single snow capped mountain, far in
land. reflected the rays of the sun. AT
ter rounding Cape MatapalI, us we look
eel up the Gulf of Laconia, and the val
ley of the Eurotas, | found myself Ie-
pcating the words of the defamation
have heard So often rehearScd on the
academy stage, e,-''ls Sparta dead p
Yes dead. dead Her greatness and
her heroes departed together, and all
Greece is but Il sepulchrc. In passing
between the main land and the island
of CNthera (oncc sacred to Ncnus.) we
reached our lowest latitude. and turn
ing north the next morning at } o'clock
found us at anchor in the harhor of
PiraeuS. Not far away lay the island
of SalamiS. and almost ilIStinctively we
looked around for the gallant little
SqUalron of the Greeks. and the shat
tened remains of the proud fleet of Ner-
NcS. Ii took too much Imagination.
that were receiving the freight from our
steamer, and the few Wlctchcd boats
whose hungry looking owners were
vaitinu fan, :, rh,uc. tn r,N n,SS.ur,,S
ashore. 50 we gave up the attempt.
Athens is about six miles from its port
and hidden hN the intervening hills.
From th, deck ot ON, steamer hoNcy.r.
we couId So, Mi Lv,ah,ttus that Uses
inst hack ~ tb, ,;t,. and Uyu.ttrs ,u,.
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v.,. to .ton tI,,.. .uI,. t,u,,, b,ur.
th,. cit, and ,uu tb. risk nf h,inu left
~. ,,t tI, mart nf nru,I.nr. and remain,
nm J,,L TL.r, v,.,,. s,m,. ohst,rl.s
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r,,idI, ou >bnr,. far our knuxIrd., ut
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Il party headed 10y Il JoIIN rIrucIIu.u
determined to make the venture and We
Joined them. though knowing that If we
were left We must remain in Athens Il
fortnight. On reaching the shore we
found that western Improvements had
found their waN even here. and Il train
of cars was waiting to take Us to the
city. Ii seemed strange enough to see
railway tickets and time tables printed
in creek. and stranger still to catch our
first glimpse of the Acrnpoli~ from IL car
wind"W. SocIatr> nrvrI.Saw the like.
he would not have understood 1t. II
was dccIdedlN out oi character. but
there "" were III Athens. Our frrhch
conductor proved himself very efficient
here. and made Il sharp bargain with Il
cthman /" drive us /" tina Arr"r"lI>.
On our way we stopped 1T the tempt"
of lhrscuS. 1t Is the best preserved oil
the Athcnlan temples ana Is hlled Win
fragments large ana small "l ah'ieh'
sculpture. can not describe what We
saw. The memory "f 1t Is Ike Il dream
which one might have VII" illd iaileh
asleep while reading ilat". mere Is
enough of reality about IL however l"
assure me that hay" really ncch 'h're'
that my feet have stock Witllih the
Patieh"h "h-tha' my eyes nave 'es'e"
on Mars iiili Whcr' 81 I'i' S''"' " men
he spoke I" the Mcil ol A'heh>' '""
upon the ruins Oh inc Guy ""''e NV"
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