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Excerpt from A Child's History of Greece, Vol. 2 of 2 He had some time before added greatly to the strength of Athens by building long walls from the city to the sea-port, which were some four miles apart from each other. He built them tall and strong, as their foundations Show to this day, and so secured forever a safe way between the city and the ships. 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.