The modern account of Athens, and the Athenians, is extracted from Spon (Voyage en Grece, tom. ii. p. 79 - 199), and Wheeler (Travels into Greece, p. 337 - 414), Stuart, (Antiquities of Athens, passim), and Chandler (Travels into Greece, p. 23 - 172). The first of these travellers visited Greece in the year 1676; the last, 1765; and ninety years had not produced much difference in the tranquil scene.