This is Sunday - the service is all over in the churches by 8 o' clock in the morning - and are closed for the rest of the day - so that greek prayers are short - there is good singing at the Russian Consuls church went there after breakfast found that closed likewise -

After dinner went to an assembly of the archiphilogical society which hold their meetings among the ruins of the Parthenon - a Suavan was reading a address on some scientific subject in Greek - the audience while numerous and select were seated on marble ruins of delicate whiteness - there was a fair share of the fair sex - some of whom were the wives and the daughters of the foreign ministers - a young lady a daughter of Marco Botzaris - rather delicate looking and dressed in a greek fez - she is maid of honour to King Othos queen - thought her very interesting as the daughter of a brave man who died for the liberty of his country

Yesterday at 12 O' clock felt a slight shock of an earthquake - was sitting alone reading at the time, those in the lower rooms in the house did not observe it - but Mr. Eaton who was at Eleusis at the time and sketching a figure among the ruins felt it accompanied with a slight rumbling noise -

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