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THE OLYMPIUM AND ACROPOLIS.
GRECIAN LADY
EW OF ATHENS.
THE PARTHENON.
ATHENS GREECE.
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ATHENS, GREECE.
GRIND
Anciently, there were as many as
nine towns bearing this same name.
The first settlement of the city of
colossal fame in the world of philo-
sophy and art, is supposed to have
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been on the cliff afterwards known
as the Acropolis. In the earliest
It will pay you well to keep a times there was no port, the inland
small coffee-mill in your kitchen site being held for safety against
and grind your coffee just as maritime attack. Increasing pros-
you use it, one mess at a time. perity prompted the opening of a
harbor at Phalerum, afterwards
Coffee should not be ground changed to the present port of
until the coffee-pot is ready to Piræus. A macadamized road fol-
receive it. Coffee will lose more erected by Themistocles, portions of
lows the line of the long walls
of its strength and aroma in one which are still visible from the
hour after being ground than port to the upper city. The first
railroad built on Grecian soil was
in six months before being opened in 1869, connecting these two
ground. So long as
points.
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The Acropolis rises 150 feet from
the top of a rocky hill, its walls form-
remains in the whole berry, our ing a circuit of nearly 1,000 feet.
glazing, composed of choice This building had the four charac-
ters of a fortress, a shrine, a treas-
eggs and pure confectioners' A
ury, and a museum of art. The
sugar, closes the pores of the Olympium was one of the largest
coffee, and thereby are retained temples in the world. Of its 124
Corinthian columns only 15 remain.
all the original strength and The Parthenon was built during the
administration of Pericles. Its di-
aroma.
mensions are 230 feet in length by
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100 in width. The ruins give some
adequate impression of its original
has during 25 years set the grandeur. The walls of the princi-
standard for all other roasted | peristyle, having 48 white marble
pal building are surrounded with a
coffees. So true is this that columns of the Doric order.
The scenery around Athens is very
other manufacturers, in recom- beautiful, but the streets and houses
of the modern city are poorly built
mending their goods, have and destitute of interest. The prin-
known no higher praise than cipal modern edifice is the palace of
the king, its southern side, with an
to say, “It's just as good as Ionic portico, giving its best aspect.
The University is a fine structure,
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buiit in 1837 by a Danish architect.
It has a large patronage of students,
ARBUCKLE BROS. and its staff of Professors includes
the names of some of the most
learned archæologists of Europe.
NEW YORK
YORK CITY.
The harbor is visited by ships of all
nations.
Population, 107,251,
JOSEPH P. KNAPP, LITH. N. Y.
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