. William H. Seward's travels around the world. loons, and at length the beautiful Church of St. George, AN ILLUMINATION. 623 which crowns the highest and central conical hill, flashed forth infull blaze of red, white, and blue lights. We had been detained foran illumination in honor of Mr. Sewards visit. He has met here some of the survivors of the emissaries whovisited the United States to secure aid for the Greek Revolution in1827. This illumination was a consequence of his sympathy withthe Greek cause. Comparing notes with these revolutionists, theyenjoyed the pleasing reflection that, alt
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. loons, and at length the beautiful Church of St. George, AN ILLUMINATION. 623 which crowns the highest and central conical hill, flashed forth infull blaze of red, white, and blue lights. We had been detained foran illumination in honor of Mr. Sewards visit. He has met here some of the survivors of the emissaries whovisited the United States to secure aid for the Greek Revolution in1827. This illumination was a consequence of his sympathy withthe Greek cause. Comparing notes with these revolutionists, theyenjoyed the pleasing reflection that, although their sanguine hopesfor the recovery of all Greece had not been accomplished, yet thata not inconsiderable part of ancient Greece, main-land as well asislands, had been restored to independence and Christianity; andthat the mass of the Greek people are enjoying a measure ofpractical civil and religious liberty unknown since the days ofPericles, and one which could not have been conceived by eitherAlcibiades or Demosthenes. -\- f^- ^ . .1. A CEOUP OF HEADS FEOM THE CE8NOLA COLLECTION. PART VI. EUROPE
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