. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 124 GRECIAN JOURNEYS But, as has been said, Athens is not our theme ; ourjourney is to be around the Peloponnesus, the great penin-sula of Greece. The great iskuni, rather let us say, for thePeloponnesus has become an island. The Corinthian canalnow joins the waters of the /Egean Sea and those of the Cor-inthian Gulf, and severs the land of the Athenians andThebans from that of the Messenians and Spartans. Workon the canal was commenced by the ancients, and the mod-ern workmen began their digging where the slaves of Nero,centuries ago, laid down their tools. As o
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. 124 GRECIAN JOURNEYS But, as has been said, Athens is not our theme ; ourjourney is to be around the Peloponnesus, the great penin-sula of Greece. The great iskuni, rather let us say, for thePeloponnesus has become an island. The Corinthian canalnow joins the waters of the /Egean Sea and those of the Cor-inthian Gulf, and severs the land of the Athenians andThebans from that of the Messenians and Spartans. Workon the canal was commenced by the ancients, and the mod-ern workmen began their digging where the slaves of Nero,centuries ago, laid down their tools. As our train creeps slowly over a high bridge, almost twohundred feet above the waters, it may be noted that thecanal is three and a half miles long, and at the water-levelone hundred feet —i^ nr— in width. \..
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