 | John Galt - 1813 - 412 pàgines
...the bottom of the hole, really perceptible to the naked eye. Yours, &c. LETTER XIV. ATHENS, March 1. IN consequence of finding the antiquities, with the...fewer words, than by saying, that it looks as if two cr three ill-built villages had been rudelyswept together at the foot of the north side of the Acropolis,... | |
 | John Purdy - 1826 - 402 pàgines
...Of Athens and its ports Mr. Gait wrote as follows in 1810 : In the present day this celebrated city looks as if two or three ill-built villages had been...rudely swept together at the foot of the North side of its Acropolis or citadel, and inclosed by a garden wall, three or four miles in circumference. The... | |
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I cannot describe the modern city of Athens in fewer words than by saying that it looks as if two or three ill-built villages had been rudely swept together at the foot of the north side of the Acropolis, and enclosed by a garden wall, three or four miles... 