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arrive on the spot, he finds the miserable huts either 

 deserted or tenanted by women and old men. How 

 can these be made to suffer for other men's offences, 

 or forced to give information which they declare 

 themselves not to possess ? 



The same dissatisfaction must be confessed with 

 Previsa Salonica, that place of steady disrespecta- 

 bility, which has maintained its bad character since 

 the apostolic days, and even with Constantinople. 

 This last is a gem of the earth, but its beauties 

 are to a great extent those of civilised elaboration. 

 Courtiers form but one species, and breathe pretty 

 much the same atmosphere throughout the world. 

 He who has studied them throughout the world has 

 marked only the circumstantial differences of locality 

 producing their effect on a spring of action, itself one 

 and constant. To search out and know this principle 

 it may be useful to visit foreign courts ; but Man, 

 beyond the exhibition of this one phase of character, 

 does not nourish in such places. If the best place of 

 observation be not actually the wilderness, because 

 that too is as extensive, calling forth necessarily par- 

 ticular energies, and exhibiting to a great extent one 

 effect, we may take favourable ground somewhere 

 midway between the extremes. It is to the heart 

 and centre of a country that we should go for the 

 vigorous current of its life. Here the colour is vivid, 

 the speciality preserved, the family features of our 

 brethren distinguishable. 



