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CHAP. 
VII, 
Alteration 
of tempe- 
rature. 
EXCURSION FROM DELPHI 
ness in the administration of the Turkish govern- 
ment, which would be ill supplied by the substi- 
tution of any other European dynasty in its 
place; that the people are not taxed beyond 
what they are well able to bear; and that they 
possess the means of redress against tyranny 
and oppression. Leaving to all such writers 
the very difficult task of proving what they have 
tlius affirmed, and judging solely by our own 
experience, we can only say, that Greece, 
divested of its Moslem governors, would be a 
land, whose inhabitants might " eat bread with- 
out scarceness, nor lack any thing in it;" unless 
indeed, and this is not improbable, it should fall 
under the dominion of Russia; when it would 
become " a desolation,' a dry land, and a wilder- 
ness." Arracovia is situate at such an elevation 
upon the mountain, that a change of temperature 
was sensibly felt by our whole party; and after 
sun-set it became very cold. We passed the 
night in a small hut, writing letters to our 
friends in England. Parnassus affiording sen- 
sations at our fingers' ends to which we had 
long been strangers, we found it expedient to 
maintain a considerable fire in the centre of our 
little dwelling; which, filling the room with 
smoke, brought tears of acknowledgment down 
our cheeks,for the seasonable warmth it aftbrded. 
