208 ST. Paul's chair. 



ing, and sweetmeat eating, for a considerable 

 number of hours during this day of visits, the 

 quantity of light liquids we were forced to con- 

 sume may be imagined ; fortunately, none of the 

 liquors were intoxicating, or we should never 

 have reached our lodging. 



The chair or platform from which St. Paul 

 preached is still in existence at Salonica. It is 

 a wooden framework, in an exceedingly dilapi- 

 dated condition, under a Roman arch across one 

 of the streets. Amongst the antiquities of the 

 town, there is a very fine triumphal arch, which 

 is almost entirely obscured by a number of small 

 houses that have been built about it. We saw, 

 too, the tomb of Poppius Cimbros, a Roman 

 governor, which had been discovered about two 

 vears before. The bones found in the tomb were 

 in excellent preservation. They are supposed to 

 have been those of Poppius Cimbros, Callitiki, 

 his wife, and Afkto, his son. 



It appears that there were two of the name of 

 Poppius, in the reign of Tiberius Csesar, inz. 

 Poppius Cimbros, of Macedonia, and Poppius 

 Sabinus, of Achaia. 



At Salonica we had the good fortune to get into 



