Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ... ing, very particularly, at first, as I passed along, I was surprised to hear, on all sides, an increasing buz and hum, so truly prodigious, that it seemed to me at last, as I proceeded, to be only comparable to the noise of the Egyptian plague of flies. On looking round, I was still more astonished to find myself in the midst of at least five hundred bee-hives, covered with earth, and forming several cities, towns, and villages, the property of different proprietors. The sides of the neighbouring hills are covered with flowers and blossoming shrubs; and it is the custom of the peasants of the country to bring their hives from a considerable distance, for the bees to feed and collect here. Before we were ready to mount, a boat arrived, with upwards of a dozen additional hives. I did not pass through Napoli Romania, as it lay at some distance on the left of the road which I took, and I was anxious to reach Argos in time to make another stage the same day. As far as beautiful scenery and fine weather can render any journey agreeable to an impatient traveller, I had every reason, in coming across the country to Voztitza, to be pleased with mine. At a short distance from Voztitza, we encountered a patrol of Albanians, who have their station five hours distant from the town, in order to guard the road, through an extensive wood of olive-trees, near wild and Alpine breaks in the mountains, from which banditti frequently issue on the passengers. In general, however, robberies are rare now within the territories of Ali Pashaw's family; and' no country may be travelled with more safety, at present, than the Morea. ! Among others that joined us, with the patrol, in passing through the wood, was a peasant, evidently in an advanced stage of dropsy....
