468 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, the principal families of Nauplia and Argos to 
send their children to Athens for instruction. 
The Consul at Nauplia had been there educated: 
it was in giving us an account of his journeys 
to Athens that we first heard any mention made 
of the Statue of Ceres at Eleusis ; for this had 
excited his curiosity when a boy, and was 
regularly visited by him in his way to and from 
Athens. The houses in Argos are built with a 
degree of regularity, and fitted up with some 
comforts uncommon in this part of the world, 
although in other respects they are wretched 
hovels. They are all ranged in right lines, or 
in parallel lines : and each house, consisting of a 
single story, has an oven ; so that here even the 
Albanians do not bake their unleavened cakes 
upon the hearth, as it is usual elsewhere in 
their cottages. From Argos, the distance to 
Mantinea is only eight hours; and it is but a 
day's journey to Tripolizza, the Capital of the 
Morea. When we heard this, and the pressing 
invitation of our Baratary to visit with him a 
part of Arcadia, whose mountains are actually 
visible from the Citadel, and also to extend our 
journey to Misitra, we gladly ordered horses for 
the expedition ; but a powerful antidote to 
enterprise, the mal-aria fever, returning amongst 
us, with its most violent paroxysms, during the 
