Chapter XX: The Way Up to the Acropolis

THE fragment of the steps that is left shows how imposing the whole must have been. In making this lithograph I could not help noting--though I did not put them in--the endless races that mounted; and although the costume of each group changed, and often the nationality and language, there was almost always someone amongst them who could read the ancient Greek of the tablets built into the wall; and always the whole party seemed to under-stand it. But the modern Greek is, I imagine, the greatest reader in the world--at any rate of newspapers.

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DOWN FROM THE ACROPOLIS