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Richmond Enquirer
Richmond, Richmond County, Virginia
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Report from Greece praises Scio (Chios) as the new Athens, highlighting its college with 700 pupils last year (expected to exceed 1,000 this year), professor Mr. Bambas planning a chemistry book in Modern Greek, a printing press, and the establishment of a public library with 30,000 volumes.
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FROM GREECE.
All Greece applauds the zeal and patriotism of the inhabitants of Scio. This place is regarded by all the Islands of the Archipelago, as the new Athens. The great College at Chios is the general assembling place of the studious youth of all Greece. The number of pupils at this College, amounted in the course of the last year to seven hundred. At the end of the present year it will exceed a thousand. Among other distinguished professors is Mr. Bambas, who has been for some time in Paris, and visited Colleges there.—He intends publishing a work upon the elements of Chemistry in the Modern Greek language. There has been a printing press in Scio for some time.—The most important event in the annals of modern Greece, is the establishment of a public Library, which already contains 30,000 volumes.
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establishment of a public library containing 30,000 volumes
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All Greece applauds the zeal and patriotism of the inhabitants of Scio. This place is regarded by all the Islands of the Archipelago, as the new Athens. The great College at Chios is the general assembling place of the studious youth of all Greece. The number of pupils at this College, amounted in the course of the last year to seven hundred. At the end of the present year it will exceed a thousand. Among other distinguished professors is Mr. Bambas, who has been for some time in Paris, and visited Colleges there. He intends publishing a work upon the elements of Chemistry in the Modern Greek language. There has been a printing press in Scio for some time. The most important event in the annals of modern Greece, is the establishment of a public Library, which already contains 30,000 volumes.