192 Miscellanies. 



but three or four times. In every case of using the acid in this applica- 

 tion, with which I am acquainted, the effects have been happy. 



Yours respectfully, David Judson. 



New Haven, Feb. 14th, 1839. 



Remarh — The late Mr. Elihu White of New York, related to us sim- 

 ilar results obtained under his direction, but the event was not always fa- 

 vorable. — Sen. Ed. 



16. Greece. — Revival of Letters. — ^We have received through our 

 friends, the Rev. Mr. Robertson, episcopal missionary, and G. A. Perdi- 

 caris, Esq., an account of the formation of two societies in Athens. 



One for the cultivation of Natural History. 



Another for inquiries in archaeology. 



Both societies have entered upon their duties, and we have received 

 pamphlets containing the constitution and doings of the Archaeological 

 Society, and the address made before that body. The speakers could 

 not fail to catch the spirit of the occasion, for the meetings were held 

 on the Acropolis, and among the columns of the Parthenon. 



Well may they be indulged in the enthusiasm which they manifest on 

 the recovery of their national liberty, and in contemplating the colossal 

 and beautiful ruins around them, over which twenty-five centuries have 

 winged their way, and left them still the admiration of mankind, despite 

 of the tooth of time, and the more barbarous hand of war as well as the 

 wanton aggressions of antiquaries. 



The following extract of a letter from Mr. Perdicaris, dated, Athens, 

 Sept. 1888, is addressed to Professor Silliman, and will, we doubt not, be 

 perused with satisfaction by all admirers of Greece and of her antiquities. 

 It is hardly necessary to add, that Mr. Perdicaris (a native of Greece, of 

 the city of Berea, whose ancient inhabitants St. Paul styles noble) was 

 many years a resident in this country, travelled and gave finished lectures 

 in many of our cities, north and south, east and west, and was universally 

 respected as a scholar, a patriot, and a man of talents and moral excel- 

 lence. 



Antiquities of Greece, S^c. — "The antiquities of Greece have exerted 

 no ordinary influence upon her destinies. Her rulers actuated by their 

 reverence for her ruins, and envious to flatter the whims of the learned, 

 decided upon bringing the capital of modern Greece to Athens, and 

 by this simple act, have prejudiced the best interests of the dead and 

 the living. The removal of the capital to Athens, has brought modern 

 improvements into close contact with the matchless ruins of the ancients, 

 and has deprived them not only of that solitude which is one of the chief 

 charms of ruined temples, but has profaned the holy places of the dead 

 with the abominations of the living. It has turned the sites of temples 



