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caloyers. They are generally poor and ignorant, 

 and subsist on the produce of the land belonging 

 to their convents, and which they are employed in 

 cultivating. 



They are all remarkably charitable, good sort of 

 people, and a traveller need desire no better 

 fortune than to fall into the hospitable hands of 

 the caloyers of some good convent. 



Their simplicity of mind, and, I may add, pro- 

 found ignorance, not only of the world generally, 

 but of every thing connected with it, is very re- 

 markable. They live well, as far as the fasts 

 which their religion enjoins permit them to do, 

 and a convent is sure to be well provided with the 

 best stock of wine in the neighbourhood ; but, like 

 priests of the Eastern Church generally, the 

 monks are mostly without education ; indeed, to 

 such an extent does prejudice exist amongst the 

 whole body against it, that it is not two years 

 since a patriarch of Constantinople, the head of 

 the Greek Church, was formally deposed by 

 the influence of the British Government with the 

 Sublime Porte, for a most unwarrantable attempt 

 to check the progress of public education in the 

 Ionian Islands, and amongst his addresses to the 



