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Title: Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands. : In a series of letters, description of manners, scenery, and the fine arts.
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Williams, Hugh William, 1773-1829
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. London : Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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ed pistols richly embossed, march-ing in great dignity before a person dressed inplain and closely cut attire. At night the Greeks must carry light. Oneevening lately, in returning home, we met apatrole of Albanian soldiers, who stopped us, andsaid we should have had our lanterns. We wereallowed to pass; but had we been a party of Greeks,We might have been obliged to pay a fine, or perhapshave suffered chastisement. Travellers seem to bemore highly favoured than the natives ; they escapefrom all vexatious contributions, exactions, and op-pressions. A wag of a Greek who had been long in Italysaid, that he had little hope of the condition ofhis brethren being ameliorated, till the Turks wouldshave their beards !—supposing that the beard be-gets pomposity, consequence, and formality, and allthe train of illiberal conduct incompatible with free-dom. True it is, the Turks are not much given tosuavity of manners, or those social virtues whichbring man to man in happy intercourse with each
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USURT. WEATHER. 371 other, suggesting the necessity of mutual rights;but the poor beard is not the cause. The rogue,I suspect, glanced a little at the numerous priests,who are generally well provided with this append-age of solemnity. Since I have mentioned the subject of beards, Imay inform you, that no Jew can live in Athens,and that for the best of all reasons, because theywould have no employment,—the trade of usurybeing taken up by the Greeks themselves, whowill not blush in asking 20 or 30 per cent. IfI am well informed, some of the residents alsolend their money to great advantage ; but neithermoney lending nor the trade in oil and honey isconsiderable. The olive groves are not at all soextensive as they were in former times ; and, per-haps, considering the state of modern Athens, thismay be for the advantage of the people, grainbeing a more regular and certain crop. * In general the weather has been very fine 5sometimes, however, we have had heavy showersof rain, and once (o

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