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cheese is made, suited to the native taste, for they will tell you 

 English cheese tastes and smells too strong. Goats 1 milk having 

 more solid contents than any other kind used by us, is more 

 nutritious, and better adapted for making cheese ; on the same 

 account, it keeps longer than other milk, a circumstance well 

 known here among the peasantry. The peasantry are perfectly 

 aware of the difference the kind of pasture produces on goats 

 and sheep ; the former are usually led to the higher or less fer- 

 tile parts of the mountains, and the sheep are kept in the more 

 richly verdured valleys. 



The hog is an inmate of every peasant's cottage. Omnivo- 

 rous as it is, nothing escapes it. During the olive season, how- 

 'ever, swine become fattest, and are then slaughtered in consider- 

 able numbers. Every part of the carcass is useful in domestic 

 economy, even the very entrails are used as sandal ties. Hog 

 and goat skins are still used for holding oil and wine in trans- 

 porting them from the country to the market. Again, hog skins, 

 after a rough tanning, are cut up, and made into sandals or 

 common Greek shoes, called irairvfy, which are much prized for 

 travelling in a rough country like theirs. 



The ass and the mule are the exclusive beasts of burden in 

 Cerigo, and for the uses to which they are put, are certainly pre- 

 ferable to horses. 



There are two well-marked varieties of dogs in Cerigo ; one 

 of which, imported from Candia, is about the size of our 

 greyhound, with a head similar to it ; general shape of body also 

 like, but stouter, and covered by longish dark grey coloured 

 hair : the other is the common dog of the island, which more 

 nearly resembles our shepherd's dog than any other I have seen. 

 Both have good scent and speed, but so remarkable are these 

 qualities in the Candia variety, that nothing can escape it in the 

 shape of game. When talking of quail, it was this kind of dog 

 alluded to, and it is highly prized by the Cerigots. 



(To be continued.) 

 CORFU, April 22. 1836. 



