72 HORMUZD EASSAM, ESQ.^ ON BIBLICAL LANDSj THEIR 



into their mode of worship or their respective tenets, but I 

 must explain that though the Roman CathoHc party are 

 strict adherents of the papal doctrine, they still retain their 

 own church discipliiie and rites like all other Oriental sects, 

 who joined the Latin church on these conditions, as the 

 Catholic Chaldean, Syrians, Copts, Maronites, and Armenians. 

 Scarcely any Greeks of either sect are found in Asiatic 

 Turkey, except in Asia Minor, Syria, and the Holy Land. 

 They seem always to be on good terms with all nationalities, 

 even the Turks and Arabs. 



NOTE. 



[To elucidate his subject the author of the paper, in tracing the history 

 of the peoples referred to, seems to have touched here and there upon 

 doctrinal differences, which not being within the scope of the Institute, 

 are excepted from discussion. — Ed.] 



