b 



S26 Mr. Pickering on the Pronunciation 



rri^ctg^) wbo has lately visited this country agaio; and now re, 

 sides in Boston. He is a native of J^avarims (anciently Pyliis) 

 on the western coast of the Peloponnesus, and is an intelligent, 

 wcll-inforraed man ; but he has told me with much frankness and 

 modesty, and at the same time with regret, that he had not enjoy- 

 ed the advantages of a learned education ; and that the education 

 3 Lad received (which was the common one of his country) had 

 sen of the less service to him, as he had been engaged in mer- 

 cantile business all his life, and had thus been compelled to with- 

 draw his attention from literary pursuits. He had, however, in 

 his youth studied Homer and some other ancient authors, as is 

 common in Greece at this day ; but, from the circumstances above 

 mentioned, he had in a great measure lost the knowledge which 

 he had acquired of ancient Greek at school, and retained but lit- 

 tie more of it than had been preserved by the daily use of his na- 

 tive language, the Modern Greek. In addition to the informa- 

 tion thus derived, I had also frequent conversations with the 

 master of the 



Italian 



3f the ship. Captain Lazarus Mcholas Katdra, (Xajx^oj 

 Karu^ay as he used to write it himself, who likewise spoke 

 ) and I frequently heard him read, particularly in the 

 Greek Testament, which he appeared, in general, to compre- 

 hend without difficulty. He was a native of Hydra, (the ancient 

 AristeraJ an island on the southeasterly side of the Peloponne- 

 sus, and celebrated for its seamen and nautical enterprize. He 



♦ In writing his name in Tlommi letters, Ciclitira, he gives the letters the 

 powers which thej have in Italian f CheekleteerahJ which he speaks fluentlv, as 

 IS common throughout the Levant 5 hut \n English we might write it, in strict 

 conformity with the Greek orthography, Tzikliteera, only pronouncing the 



a V... t as 



in our word magazine. Every reader will recollect a similar combination of Tz 

 in the name of John Tzetzes. 



