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although Sir Wm. Symonds would have built a 

 better, the colonel of artillery deserved a good 

 deal of credit. 



The batteries of Salonica, although certainly 

 defenceless in themselves, had been made to 

 assume an appearance of regularity and order; 

 and the guns, most of brass and very fine ones, 

 particularly two of immense calibre, intended to 

 carry stone shot, had been well polished up and 

 seemed serviceable. 



We spent one day at Salonica in a round of 

 visits. First we saw the Greek prelate, a good- 

 natured, round, laughing, fat, jolly-looking per- 

 sonage, who received us with great civility, and 

 was very communicative. We next visited the 

 kaimakan, or lieutenant-governor of Salonica, 

 Izzeh Mehemet Pasha, a pasha with two tails, 

 who, being a military man, has likewise the rank 

 of ferreck, or general of brigade. His immediate 

 chief was Mustafa, the Pasha of Janina. He is 

 rather a fine-looking man, but with debauched 

 countenance and red eyes. He rose on our 

 entrance, but remained sitting when we took our 

 leave. We next visited Hajji Achmet Bey, mir 

 allai, or colonel commander-in-chief of all the 



