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REMARKS ILLUSTRATING PART OF THE PRECEDING JOURNAL. 



[EXTRACTED FROM THE LATE DR. SIBTHORP'S PAPERS.] 



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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, wliose thorny coats form an im- 

 penetrable 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 Sacris- 

 tan, KoiTMo-iTi hg Tviv EJiKXojtr/ai , 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 proceed- 

 ed, in order, to celebrate the service in the open air. " Christ is risen 

 from the dead," was frequently repeated; the tapers were raised^ 

 and the villagers crossed themselves with much devotion. The ser- 

 vice being finished, a general salutation took place, the men kissed 

 the men, the women, the women. The congregation, who had lan- 

 guished with a long fast, felt with impatience the desire of animal 

 food, and many withdrew to their rustic hearth to enjoy the feast of 



* The fertility of this district of the Morea is praised by the ancient Greeks: see Plu- 

 tarch in Agesi. and Strabo's quotation from Euripides, in his account of Messenia. 



