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very diligent at tiieir duty in the Quire ; but their Revenue is very Incon- 
fiderable • and the Arch- Bi (hop himfelf has no more than two hundred Piafires 
of yearly Kent. He hath a feat in the country with a Church ; it is a very 
deliahtful place and c lUed San Mamma ; the Church is neat, Paved with Mar- 
ble and the Walls lined with the fame, but kept in bad repair. Befidesthe Ca- 
thedral Church, the Jefiiits have alfo a forry Houfe in the Caftle ; and the 
Greeks have a Chappel that belonged to the Dukes formerly : Without the 
Town there are Recollets and Capuchins, who make many Profelytes there 
to the Catholick Faith. The Inhabitants of Nixia have great fewds among 
themfelves,fo that they fpeak not to one another as long as they live; but the 
Women are more on tinate than the Men, and are very great medlers in other 
Peoples Bull nefs. Thefe Women wear more than ten Coats one over another, 
fothat they have much adoe to 'go, and their Shoes are fo ftreight, that they 
can hardly thruft their Feet into them, but they are pretty Honeft and Chafh 
This Ifland raifes its Tribute by the fale of Wine, Cheefe, and Silk. 
CHAP. LXVIL 
Of the IjJes o/"Paro^ Delos^ My cone, Tine andNio. 
A Bout fix miles from Nixia, is the Hie of Paro, heretofore Paros, which pm. 
hath three Caftles, feveral Villages ; a good harbour for all forts of 
Velfels; fair Churches, and many Greek Priefts and Monks, being fifty miles 
in compafs, and containing abonc fix thoufand ^Souls. There were feveral 
Statues, Marble-Chefls, and other Antiquities found in this Ifland, which have 
been carried away by an Enghjh Gentleman, who brought off all he could 
find, not only there, but in the other Ifles ^Ifo ; and chiefly in Delos, called Delos, or 
at prefect 5i^n//e, heretofore fo famous for the Oracle of Jfollo^ and where ^yirf/fe. 
in ancient times there were fo many Statues of the Gods ; at prefent there 
is no more but a Statue lying along upon the Ground, reprefenting a Woman ^ , 
which isfo great, that ficting upon the Shoulders, one cannot reach the Head 
with the Hand; and there is nothing of it broken off but one Arm. This 
Ifle is fourteen miles in Circuit: There are many Ports about thefe little 
Illands, inhabited only by Coneys, where the Corfars commonly go. a little 
farther off is the llland oïMycone^ heretofore Mycoms^ which was well Peopled, Myme, 
but at prefent is alraolt forfaken, becaufe of the rigorous Perfecution of the 
Turks ; it is thirty miles in Circuit. Over againft this Ifland is the Ifle of 
Tine^ in Ancient times Tencs^ which belongs to the Venetians ; it is well Peopled, Twf. 
and hath a very fl;rong Cafi:le, built upon a high Rock, and the Houfes Itand 
one over another. This Ifle is forty miles in Compafs ; it is plentiful iu Pro- 
vifions and Silk j but fo over flocked with People, that many are obliged to 
go ad live elfewhere, as at Smyrna and Chio, There is a Latin Bifliop in it -, 
and the Women are handforae and Courteous enough. In going to Samorim, 
one muffc pafs by the Ifle of Nioy called heretofore OUarus^ which was not nio. 
long fince Inhabited by the Albanians^ a Barbarous and Warlike People, who oliams, 
go all night long Armed by the Sea-fide. Their Fields are fruitful in all things, 
and they have very thick Woods of Oakes and other Trees, which they cut 
down and fell to feveral Places, and particularly to the Inhabitants of 5^wo- 
nw", who Hand in need of it, as we fhallfay hereafter. There is a good Har- 
bour in this Ifland. 
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