Excerpt from Greece as a Kingdom IN presenting to the British Public the following work, which is the result of observations made, and information collected, during a residence of eight years in Greece, the Author's sole Object is to make known the real state of this interesting country, hitherto so neglected by the rest of Europe. Many works have, no doubt, been published on Greece within the last few years, but no one has ever attempted to give an account of the actual state of the kingdom. Most of these productions, in fact, either relate to the antiquities of Greece, or form personal narratives, which, however interesting in themselves, are not calculated to give the tourist on the spot, or the general reader at home, any information as to the present state of the laws, public institutions, commerce, and resources of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.