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Title: Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands. : In a series of letters, description of manners, scenery, and the fine arts.
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Williams, Hugh William, 1773-1829
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. London : Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ture. The Greeks squatted round,and looked inquisitively at every thing we did.The shepherds dress is of white woollen cloth, orna-mented according to fancy; black garters below theknee, and black lines of the same breadth acrossthe calf of the leg and the ancle. In the village, next morning, we looked aboutfor inscriptions and marbles, but did not find anyworthy of observation. The Greek church, how-ever, quite at hand, contains a few fragments.And here I may observe, that the churches are themost likely places to find any remains of antiquity. It was a drizzling morning when we left Cocklafor the village of Condari. Yet we still cast alingering look upon the sacred field ; which truly,without association, inspires no feeling but regret,that such an extensive plain should be so thinly in-habited, and without the slightest degree of tillage.The Greek peasants do not even cultivate a garden.When we had inconsiderably advanced, the greyand low remains of poor Plataea looked like a flock
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