Added: Nov 22, 2008

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Greek folk-songs from the Turkish provinces of Greece Albania, Thessaly, (not yet wholly free) and Macedonia: literal and metrical translations utterances of social despair and diseased aspiration. What else could have urged men to the deadly perils of scaling their inaccessible precipices the prodigious labours of crowning their untrodden summits with domed and pillared churches, and galleried and cloistered con- vents ? And when we turn for verification of what we seem to have heard to the historical facts of the time, and the circumstances of the building in mid-air and peopling of these Monasteries, we gain fullest assurance that we have not misheard their voices. 26 3. As we round the eastern horn, i.ooo feet high,

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