This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 Excerpt: ...as usual in caverns-. The The shape, which a portion of this substance had chanced to assume, proved the occafion of our journey. The Greek had received from it a lively idea of a human figure, and, filled with admiration, had represented it as the image of a caloyer or monk with a venerable beard and of a striking ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 Excerpt: ...as usual in caverns-. The The shape, which a portion of this substance had chanced to assume, proved the occafion of our journey. The Greek had received from it a lively idea of a human figure, and, filled with admiration, had represented it as the image of a caloyer or monk with a venerable beard and of a striking aspeet. We re-hoisted our two adventurers, and mounting our horses went back to our baggage by the way we came. THE mountains on-this side of Athens were once noted for silver. The mines were private property, and were worked for the benefit of individuals, to the time of Themistocles. By his advice, the republic took posseslion of them, and applied the profits to the building of triremes to be employed in the war with 1Egina. Demetrius the Pl1alere'an said, that the Athenians laboured on them as eagerly as if they hoped to dig up Plutus himself, the god of riches. The produce, which at first was. plentiful, failing, they re-melted the old scum and dross, and found ore, which, from want of skill, had not been extradted. The well, to which we were condufted, was probably a shaft. The honey of Attica esteemed most exquisite was taken near the mines. ON our arrival at the thicket where our baggage lay, a couple of Greeks climbed the mountain to search for wild honey 5-and our servants began to prepare dinner, striking sire, and hewing down bushes with their sabres. The fold of Mustapha Bey, a friendly Turk of Athens, supplied us with a sheep fed on the fragrant herbage of Hymettus, They embowelled the carcase, and sixed it whole and warm on a wooden spit; which was turned by one of them sitting on the ground. They cut in pieces the heart, liver, and the like, and mingled them on a skewer, to be dressed on the coals. Some boughs of green mastic serve...
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