all, in justice to
Oxford and Cambridge, present the reader with a specimen of the finest
passages from Clarke and Bishop Heber, that he may judge for himself
on their merit, great as it often is, when compared with that of the
ardent and yet learned German.

Clarke, on leaving Greece, gives the following brilliant summary of
the leading features of that classic land:--

"The last moments of this day were employed in taking once more a
view of the superb scenery exhibited by the mountains Olympus and
Ossa. They appeared upon this occasion in more than usual
splendour; like one of those imaginary Alpine regions suggested by
viewing a boundary of clouds when they terminate the horizon in a
still evening, and are gathered into heaps, with many a towering
top shining in fleecy whiteness. The great Olympian chain forms a
line which is exactly opposite to Salonica; and even the chasm
between Olympus and Ossa, constituting the defile of Tempe, is
here visible. Directing the eye towards that chain, there is
comprehended in one view the whole of Pieria and Bottiaea; and with
the vivid impressions which remain after leaving the country,
memory easily recalled into one mental picture the whole of
Greece. Every reader may not duly comprehend what is meant by
this: but every traveller who has beheld the scenes to which
allusion is made, will readily admit its truth; he will be aware
that, whenever his thoughts were directed to that country, the
whole of it recurred to his imagination, as if he were actually
indulged with a view of it.

"In such an imaginary flight he enters, for example, the defile of
Tempe; and as the gorge opens to the south, he beholds all the
Larissian plain. This conducts him to the fields of Pharsalia,
whence he ascends the mountains south of Pharsalus; then, crossing
the bleak and still more elevated region extending from these
mountains towards Lamia, he views Mount Pindus far before him, and
descending into the plain of the Sperchius, passes the straits of
Thermopylae. Afterwards, ascending, Mount Oeta, he beholds
opposite to him the snowy point of Lycorea, with the rest of
Parnassus, and the villages and towns lying at its base: the whole
plain of Elataia lying at his feet, with the course of the
Cephissus to the sea. Passing to the summit of Parnassus, he looks
down upon all