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Title: A tour in Greece, 1880
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Farrer, Richard Ridley
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Publisher: Edinburgh and London : W. Blackwood and sons
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check all recollec-tion of the next two hours, spent damply in a grimy apart-ment devoid of furniture, pending the preparation of food.At any rate, it was not a passage-room, and so far an improve-men upon last nights accommodation. A fine morning casts much of these disagreeables intoLivadia. oblivion. There are few places like Livadia. The main street runs up tlie river-side, and not only with its manyshops illustrates Exchange—a very well-understood branch ofpolitical economy throughout these regions—but also with itscotton mills affords an example of Production. Tor there areno less than six wheels turned by the swift stream of theHercyne, employed in working up the cotton grown on theplain below. On clearing the town a magnificent scenerewards the traveller. The brawling torrent debouches frombetween sheer walls of limestone, through which it has beenwinding for nearly a mile, and is at tliis spot spanned by thehighest of the picturesque old bridges that at intervals through
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LiVADIA. THROUGH BCEOTIA ON PACK-SADDLES. 107 the length of the town unite its banks. On a towering- heio-htto the left is the old Frankish castle, which, like the dark gorgeabove, is in strange contrast with the picturesque life below.The hum of perpetual talk rises up from the shops in themain street, and blends with the whizzing of the mill-wheels;while gaily dressed groups of citizens sit ever at the pot-house doors, playing the noble game of casino, and striv-ing to win a few drachmae with all that keenness forwhich encounters between Greek and Greek have been lono;proverbial. A stiff climb up the right-hand scaur has the beneficialeffect of choking off the little vulgar boys who pertinaciouslydog a strangers steps, and of opening up a grand panorama.Descending from the snow and pines of Helicon, two streamsjoin at the head of the gorge, rushing down upon the littletown, and then meander gently through the rich alluvial flatsbelow, irrigating the productive but scanty cotton-fiel

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