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GERMAN TRAVELLERS. 



us to acknowledge the good qualities of the 

 people among whom it is displayed.* 



During our stay with Mr. Sandford we fell 

 in with Herr Loew of Posen, one of the party 

 of German savans who had been sent by the 

 King of Prussia on a mission of discovery in 

 Asia Minor. This gentleman and Professor 

 Schonbrun had chosen Lycia as the field of 

 their researches; but, though we had all been 

 in the country at the same time, and had often 

 crossed each others' paths, we had never chanced 

 to come in contact. After the departure of 

 Mr. Daniell from Rhodes, Professor Schonbrun 

 arrived, having opportunely fallen in with the 

 officers of the Monarch, in which ship he crossed 

 from Xanthus. We had a very delightful in- 

 terview and conversation on the antiquities of 

 Lycia, whilst he was in quarantine. 



* The Osmanli or Mahometan population of Rhodes is 

 about eight thousand, of whom upwards of seven thousand 

 reside in the town. The Greeks of the island are about twenty- 

 three thousand in number, the Jews about three thousand, 

 and the Roman Catholics about one hundred and twenty. 

 The chief exports of Rhodes are sponges, timber, honey, wax, 

 valonia, oil, wine, onions, silk, oranges, lemons, pomegranates, 

 and other fruits, shoes and red leather. — Information com- 

 municated by W. Sandford, Esq. 



