text:  How often does a revolution like that of Greece when the very organization of society is shaken compress the progress of a century within a few years! There remained nothing for me but to visit the monastery and seek a solution of the singular enigma from my friend's own mouth; so joining a party of travellers who were about to visit the marble quarries of Pentelicus and continue their excursion to the plain of Marathon I set out on such a morning as can only be witnessed under the pure sky of Attica