are at present as ignorant of Greece, as of the interior of Africa." Surely not quite so ignorant; or several of our Grecian

Mungo Parks

have travelled in vain, and some very sumptuous works have been published to no purpose! As we proceed, we find the author observing that "Athens is

now

the most polished city of "Greece," when we believe it to be the most barbarous, even to a

[proverb]

—

is a couplet of reproach

now