Excerpt from Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece`, Vol. 5 of 7: During the Middle of the Fourth Century Before the Chrisitian AEra The fields are separated from each other by hedges or by walls; By a wise regulation observed in Attica; such lands as are mort gaged for the repayment of money are pointed out by small columns bearing an inscription which records the obligations con tracted with a creditor. Similar columns, placed before the houses that are pledged, in like manner make them known to every one, and the lender need be under no fear that he should be injured by any secret contracts, The 'possessor of a field may not dig a well, or build a house or wall in it, except at a certain distance prescribed by law, from the field of his. Neighbour: neither i's'he permitted to turn the waters which descend from the hills thdt may surround his land over his neighbour's ground; but he may turn them into the public road, (a) and the proprietors of the adjacent fields must defend their lands from them. In certain places the rain-water is received in canals, which convey it to a great distance. 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.