. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. RUINS OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF THEMYSTERIES AT ELEUSIS. La photograph. copyriKht. by rnaerwnn<l cV IlKierwoDil. N. i . THE ENVIRONS OF ATHENS nature. Are there not royal angers which flame outof the pure furnaces of love? This noble womanseems to me to be the present glory of Eleusis. The mountainous island of Salamis, long andcalm, with gray and orange rocks, lies like a sentinelkeeping guard over the harbor of the Piraeus. It isso near to the mainland that the sea between the twoshores looks like a lake, lonely and brilliant, with thetwo
. The near East; Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople. RUINS OF THE GREAT TEMPLE OF THEMYSTERIES AT ELEUSIS. La photograph. copyriKht. by rnaerwnn<l cV IlKierwoDil. N. i . THE ENVIRONS OF ATHENS nature. Are there not royal angers which flame outof the pure furnaces of love? This noble womanseems to me to be the present glory of Eleusis. The mountainous island of Salamis, long andcalm, with gray and orange rocks, lies like a sentinelkeeping guard over the harbor of the Piraeus. It isso near to the mainland that the sea between the twoshores looks like a lake, lonely and brilliant, with thetwo-horned peak called the throne of Xerxesstanding out characteristically behind the low-lyingbit of coast where the Greeks have set up an Xerxes did really watch the famous battlefrom a throne placed on the hill with which his nameis associated is very doubtful. But many travelerslike to believe it, and the kind guides of Athens arequite ready to stiffen their credulity. The shores of this beautiful inclosed bit of sea arewild. The water is wonderfulh^ clear, and is shotwith all sorts of
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