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January, 1921 
Motor Boats and Boat Motors 
DESIGN — CONSTRUCTION — OPERATION — REPAIR 
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Attic Plain, surrounded by the famous 
mountains of Old Hymettus, Pentelli- 
cus, Parnes and Corydallus, so familiar 
to classic readers, and enclosed by the 
Bay of Salamis and the Saronic Gulf. 
Modern Athens is chiefly conspicuous 
to the newcomer on account of the ex- 
treme whiteness of its buildings and 
streets, and even the ruined temples 
are as white as when the marble was 
quarried from old Pentellicus. The 
most prominent and celebrated feature 
of Athens is the Acropolis, crowned by 
the Parthenon, and just below it is the 
Areopagus, or Mar’s Hill, where St. 
Paul preached his famous sermon to 
the Athenians. I had the curiosity to 
climb to the summit of this hill, and in 
a depression at the top I saw one of 
the “men of Athens” sleeping off the 
effects of too much booze. Some of the 
modern buildings of Athens consist of 
a fine University, the Academy, numer- 
ous colleges and schools and the Palace. 
The National Museum has a very rich 
collection of Grecian antiquities, in- 
cluding those exhumed by Dr. Schlie- 
mann from Troy, Mycenae and else- 
where. 
We were especially desirous to visit 
Mycenae and other places in the Pel- 
oponnesus and accordingly went by 
steamer to the old fortified town of 
Nauplia at the head of the Gulf of 
Argolis. At Nauplia we secured a 
carriage and driver, and after an hour 
or two we stopped to visit the ruins of 
Tiryns, and to admire its wonderful 
Cyclopean walls. Another hour or two 
brought us to Argos, the oldest city in 
Greece, where we tarried for luncheon. 
The principal features of Argos were 
the Acropolis and the rock-hewn amphi- 
theater with a seating capacity of ten 
thousand. From Argos a few hours’ 
drive took us to Mycenao. Along the 
roads traversed were numerous shrines, 
where our Jehu stopped to deposit a 
copper coin, and perhaps to breathe a 
prayer, and what seemed strange to 
our boasted advanced civilization, was 
that these offerings were never mo- 
lested by the wayfarer, but were held 
to be sacred, and were collected by the 
priests. The “Thirsty Plain of Argos” 
seemed to have had its influence on our 
driver, inasmuch as he was obliged to 
stop at every roadside wineshop to as- 
suage his consuming thirst with a glass 
of amber colored, but bitter and as- 
tringent native wine. The wineshops 
were kept mostly by priests who wore 
stovepipe hats without brims, even 
when working in the fields. 
Mycenae is best known in history as 
the capital of Agamemnon’s kingdom, 
about 500 B. C., 'although it was found- 
ed nearly a thousand years before. It 
stands on a hill, with a valley between 
it and the neighboring mountains. 
When Schliemann began his excava- 
tions it was entirely covered for many 
feet with star dust and the shifting 
sands of the Plain of Argos. ^ He un- 
earthed many tombs, among others 
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