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Title: Macedonia, a plea for the primitive
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Goff, A Fawcett, Hugh Alderson
Subjects: Macedonia -- Description and travel Macedonia
Publisher: London : John Lane New York, John Lane company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he slender whitemasts of tall minarets. Closer inspection mayreveal a little round-roofed tomb, the bronzedomes of a Turkish bath, or the pink brickworkof a little Byzantine church. The curious andrare minaret with a double gallery is quite near,while further away another claims our attentionby the cross-gartered effect of its red brickornamentation. On the heights to our right alittle monastery is seen nestling among the blackcypress trees ; lower down we observe the strangebuttresses of St. Elias, another Byzantine relic,and the beautiful little cupolas of St. Catherines,standing out from the low lichened roofs of thehost of houses round about. At this point, theeye is arrested by a large dark grey patch, devoidof trees, its monotony broken only by a few lonelyminarets or the big skeleton frames of modernbuildings in Venizelos Street. Such is the broadbare scar left by the last great fire. Far away to our right stretch the flat marshesof the Vardar, backed by the distant blue of the
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STREET, TCKKISH (JUAUTEK.SALONICA SALONIKA: THE MODERN TOWN 157 great Serbian mountains. Lastly, we turn to thehuge expanse of the harbour, dotted with AlHedboats and battle-craft, to the Gulf of Salonikabeyond, flanked by the shores of old Greece andthe towering snow-capped Home of the Gods —Mount Olympus. Such is the picture—so clear that it mightalmost be a fitting illustration by a fancifulartist to an Eastern fairy tale. For, indeed, is notthe East one huge fairy tale ? Are not the whiteminarets and the mysterious old houses, the storkson the roof, the beggar at the fountain, the verycobble-stones and, above all, the deep blue skyand the star-strewn night the very essentials ofmagic and romance ?

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