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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GREECE; PELOPONNESUS ARCADIA i Neda; Hagno Arcadia offers a most suitable starting point for a reading ramble through southern Greece. Circling over Mt. Cyllene, which is more than a mile and a quarter high and lacks less than two hundred feet of being the highest peak in the peninsula, one would see the latter making its own map and describing the form of a mulberry leaf, a shape that suggested the present name of Morea and displaced the earlier one of Pelops' Isle or Peloponnesus. Arcadia has been called the Switzerland of the Peloponnesus of which it is the second largest country, having a territory equal to a tract forty miles square, as against Laconia's square of forty-three and a half miles. The Arcadians claimed an antiquity greater than that of the moon, a boast that becomes remarkably suggestive when considered in connection with a theory of one of the leading astronomers of the XXth century that the earth's satellite was thrown off from the western part of North America. Among the Greeks the Arcadians were considered the rudest of their countrymen, and their religious ceremonies included human sacrifices down to the Macedonian period. Thanks, however, to the Latin poets, arcadian has become a synonym for ideal innocence and virtue as illustrated in the lives of simple shepherds and their mates. Arcadia was surrounded by mountains and was landlocked near the middle of the Morea; but in compensation for her isolation from the sea she was richer in river sources than any of the surrounding districts. The Alpheus, the chief river of Greece, rose in her boundaries, and so did "the most ancient of waters"? the Spring of Neda. By the brink of that Spring one stood at the entrance to the Corridor of Time. Nearby was Lycosura, the oldest town...