Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly Poetical
Memorials of a Tour in Some Parts of Greece: Chiefly Poetical
Houghton, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron, 1809-1885
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In what may be called the country towns, the villas round about, generally on little knolls or a hill-side, are not inel^ant,— they appear to have no inhabited story but the upper one, which the thick-woven reed-lattice declares devoted to female privacy ; below this the wall is only perforated by small apertures, like our turret- win- dows. Some of the villages, roofed with, as well as built of, white stone, have, from some short distance, a most curious effect, espe- cially in a fertile part ...of the country ; they are quite ghastly, — ghosts of habitations or congregated tombs. I leave my ^^ notions generales" to your clear mind and full knowledge; they can teach you little, but your thoughts are accustomed to make much out of every little. Digitized by CjOOQ IC EPIRUS. 49 When the thick and hitter Acheron leaves the ravine of the Cassopoean mountains, the gorge through which it takes its hroader course into the Paramithiau plain is called '' Glyky/' and the part of the coast where it meets the sea " Porto Glyky " (the sweet harhour).
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