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Modern Greece

Modern Greece


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 edition. Excerpt: ...hanging from the rafters a number of wide and shallow wicker baskets, in which the silkworms were feeding. Already a chrysalis or two might be seen suspended by its delicate constructor from the lower sides of the tiles of the roof, through the intervals of which, when night fell, the moonbeams gleamed in upon us. On the whole, I must say, the cottages of the Greek peasantry are remarkably wanting in the air of comfort which a few slight improvements might readily impart. No neat garden, with its wall-flowers garnishing the border, and the woodbine or honeysuckle climbing over a rustic porch, is to be seen, as in England, before the door of the most humble laborer. Few domestic animals are kept, except fierce watch-dogs for protection, who greet the traveler in packs as often as he has occasion to enter a village. Even to the rearing of the honey-bee, for which the country is admirably adapted, the people of Peloponnesus pay comparatively little attention; and a neat row of hives is rarely met with in that district. The few that you will find are made of osier baskets, merely plastered over with mud or clay and dried in the sun; and perhaps they answer the purpose well enough. This is one of not a few instances in which contrivances of a manufacture as simple as that of Homeric times are still commonly employed. Small, too, are the substantial comforts with which the laboring man's home is provided. Of furniture there is little except the mere utensils indispensable for cooking; and as the diet of the poor is simple and light, their number is restricted within a narrow compass. The articles we esteem as almost necessary to existence are wanting. Such COTTAGE FURNITURE. 191 a thing as a bedstead can not, I presume, be met with in a...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155024752
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 128
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155024753
  • Publisher Date: 12 Oct 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 240 gr


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