. William H. Seward's travels around the world. oponnesus. Deviating from the direct road, we approached thecity through one of those vast cemeteries by which historians tellus it was entirely surrounded outside of the ancient walls. Strangeto say, the cemetery has a pleasing rather than a melancholy as- 628 EUROPE. pect. No gaping vaults, no revolting mummies, no tombs, no sar-cophagi, are here. All excavations have been filled up and lev-elled, while the monuments which covered them have been gath-ered and carefully arranged. The monuments, in no case colossal,consist of marble statuary, and
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. oponnesus. Deviating from the direct road, we approached thecity through one of those vast cemeteries by which historians tellus it was entirely surrounded outside of the ancient walls. Strangeto say, the cemetery has a pleasing rather than a melancholy as- 628 EUROPE. pect. No gaping vaults, no revolting mummies, no tombs, no sar-cophagi, are here. All excavations have been filled up and lev-elled, while the monuments which covered them have been gath-ered and carefully arranged. The monuments, in no case colossal,consist of marble statuary, and tablets engraved and inscribed inalto-rilievo. The execution in all cases is exquisite, the design al-ways touching and simple. Modern Athens is a town of fifty thousand inhabitants. Al-though it retains and preserves most interesting and wonderfulmonuments of the past, it is nevertheless purely European, and hasput the ancient world of Africa and Asia out of sight. Its streetsare of comfortable width, well paved ; its buildings, with few ex-. A GREEK WOMAN. ceptions, are modern, but crowded too densely. We took lodgingsat the Hotel dAngleterre, at the foot of the beautiful gardens of BRIDGE AT ELEUSIS. 629 the Koyal Palace. The fields round Athens ai;e brown from a longdrought, but the monotony is relieved by a wide belt of olive-trees
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