| Show GREECE 1 PRESENT CONDITION OF THE COUNTRY PROGRESS SINCE 1834 A long article in the london timos times contains some information concerning greece we copy a few passages greece has effected much towards obtaining a fair position in the scale of civilization contending all the while with many disadvantages disadvantages wholly unappreciable in this quarter of the globe if it can be proved that the little kingdon of greece has in proportion done more for its improvement pro in thirty three years than the mohammedan empire in four centuries iffe if we take into consideration that the one is a christian the other an infidel nation there is some grounds for inquiring whether it is the duty of christian powers and especially that of great britain to continue deaf to the appeal of candia in her wish for annexation to greece after the war which gave to greece her independence the whole country was literally strewn with the ruins of towns the few that escaped the almost universal destruction were the following in the pelo ponese Nau plia navarino modon and coron in and Chary sto in continental greece vos tiza and lepanto the towns destroyed were the following in the pelo ponese Tai Tal argos corinth egina Kalav ryta patras ps nissi calamaia Ca lamata and anday gy chium in continental greece mis so longhi carlassara Carvas sara Carpe nissi ag Gala te Le levadia vadla vadia thebes Me gares and athens in these towns were burnt demolished and sacked principally by ibrahim pasha who also dds dis destroyed troyed the fruits of the land the vine and the olive I 1 not only have all these towns been rebuilt budwith but with the following addition 1 at patras the higher town has been restored and a new and larger one built on the seashore 2 A new sparta on the supposed site of ancient sparta S arta 3 A new megalopolis 4 ber bet between Ca lamata and coron on the seashore a new town called Peta reta lidi 5 at the pir piraeus eus the town the harbor and the quays 6 syra and its harbor of quays aily daily in creasing importance 7 atthe at the southern extremity of a new town and harbor in process of construction called Otho 8 A little town called at first Amalla Amali polls apolis now Pel pei pelagia agia agla on the harbor of volo 9 A new town called adamas in the island of milos founded by the apha dietes inhabitants of the white mountains of crete 10 corinth has been twice rebuilt once after the war and again after the earthquake in 1858 at the east of the ancient harbor of leche leone twenty three ancient towns have been rebuilt and ten new ones including athens have been founded athens alone contains more than thousand nive five housand houses and is increasing very different from the athens des bribed in itinerary squal lid iid tottering and tortuous its gretchea wretched chea roofs the haunts of storks its state degraded its population debased to these towns must be added villages some of which from local causes have grown into small towns such as Phil latra Dimit zara leonidos Leon idon grani dion cume astalos Asta cosand and others taking as a starting point the actual population of the 33 towns rebuilt at inhabitants that of the same towns restored at that of the villages grown into small towns at we have a population of granting ran tl n gap a proportion ro portion of eight inhabitants tan t s per house we find about 30 houses rebuilt t since the year 1833 which calculated at a minimum of drachmas per house represents a capital of this sum has been earned b by Y pre r es severing evering effora efforts s on sea aadland and land abib and by y the influx of ilie lile the corn trade as w well weil as by the export of national produce in the course of thirty three years the produce of agriculture has increased in the proportion of one to four yet the first part of those years has been bein affected by the inevitable consequences attending on a revolution secondly by tue apathy of an incompetent ruler thirdly and lastly by a prolonged provisional government 0 |
