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Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, and Other Countries of the East
Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey and Other Countries of the East Author:Robert Walpole General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1818 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Description: Consists of unpublished papers of Dr. Sibthorp, Dr. Hunt, Dr. Hume and other travellers, with descriptions of antiquities and notes and excursus by the editor. Subjects: Inscriptions, Greek Middle Eas... more »t Greece Egypt Turkey Natural history History / Ancient / Greece History / Ancient / Egypt History / Middle East / Egypt History / Middle East / General History / Europe / Greece Nature / General Social Science / Archaeology Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: REMARKS ILLUSTRATING PART OF THE PRECEDING JOURNAL. [EXTRACTED FROM THE LATE DR. SIBTHORP'S PAPERS.) April, 1795. -- Kutchuk Maina contains about one hundred and fifty houses. The town was surrounded by groves of mulberry trees, fenced in by the Indian fig, whose thorny coats form an impenetrable fence. The Morea contains a number of fertile plains ; but this of Messenia in richness of soil was superior to the rest. We were told in our evening conversation at the Aga's, that in certain spots it returned thirty-fold the seed that was sown ; that the peasant sometimes reaped two crops-of corn in the same year; and that the Calamboki, sown in May, when the wheat, was cut, was reaped in August. Sunday, April 12. -- I was awakened early by the cry of the Sacristan, Koirido-sre eig rijv ExxAijir/ar, which called up the whole village to celebrate the festival of the Paschal Lamb. I rose an hour before sun-rise, and accompanied the Consul to church, whence we proceeded, in order, to celebrate the service in the open air. " Christ is risen from the dead," was frequently repeated; the tapers were raised, and th...« less