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Excerpt from Greece and the Golden Horn
The city of Corfu is built upon a point Of land, just Opposite to Vida, and though not perfectly ?at, is not, with the exception of the citadel and. The streets near the governor's palace, greatly elevated. The houses built of stone or brick, and plastered and whitewashed, have a neglected and decaying appearance. The streets are very narrow, and, with a few exceptions, the shops are small, poor, and dirty. Only a few of the coarsest articles are exhibited for sale, and though the streets are several of them crowded, there is but little appearance of business. Multitudes of people stood or sat idle, laughing, talking, or smoking. No thing could be more picturesque and un-european than the whole scene. It was decidedly oriental, and the more striking for being the first oriental town I had visited. The ?owing and various costumes of the Greeks, Turks, and Albanians, were mingled in gay confusion.
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