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1.08 , Travels into the Levant- Part I. 
CH A R LXiX. 
Of the Jjles of PolicandrC; Mi!o^ Sifanto Thermia^ 
A)ora, and Scyra. 
FoJicitiidre. rTpHE Ifle of ToUcandre is eight miles in cornpafs; and a pretty pleafant 
pl^ce : Three miles from the Sea-fide, there is a Village of about an hunr 
dredHoufes, inhabited by three hundred Souls ^ one mufi: crofs over a Valley 
and Rocks in going to it,and there are no other Houfes in the îfiand : In it there 
are three well built Churches, and two Monalleries, one of Men, and another 
of Women. The Convent of the Monks is very well fituated, and is dedicated 
to the BlefTed Virgin ; it hath a little Garden adjoyning to the Church, with a 
Ciftern of excellent water ; and in that Garden there is a Statue without a 
Head, made after the Apoftolick way -, there are others alfo in the Walls, 
built in among the reft of theftones. The other Monaftery is for Women, 
who obferve no rule or ii,ftitution,but live as Nature teaches them^ their Church 
is dedicated to St. Jc^/7,and a Monk fays Mafs in it on all Sundays and Holy-days. 
The Inhabitants of this Ifle pay their Tribute with the Money they raife from 
Barley, Cotton, Stuffs, andCheefe which they make. The Caftleftands upon 
a very high Hill, but all the Houfes of it are ruinous, except a Chapel of 
. St. Mtohael the Arch- Angel ; from thence one may fee all thelfles of the Archi- 
felago. The Inhabitants of this place are honeit, civil and courteous People, 
efpecially the Women, who are very handfome j they live pretty well, having 
very good Bread, Fowl,Sheep,and other things necelTary : They make no Wine, 
but have it brought them from Santonm, which is but thirty miles from it. 
They have no Phyficians nor Chyrurgeons, nor any fort of Trade. The Har- 
bour of this Ifland is indifferent good, but the Maimts and other Cor/^/rj put 
often in there, and lodge a-fliore in a Church that ftands by the Sea-fide. 
Miio. The Ifle of Milo is fo called from Mybs, which in the vulgar Greek fignifies 
a Mill, becaufe there are many Windmills in it, and becanie alfo they bring 
Mill-ftones from thence. T his Ifland is thirty fix miles about, has few Hills in 
it, and is fruitful in all things, felling yearly betwixt three and four hundred 
Tun of Wine, and the Inhabitants trade in C.W/e, Fenke^ and other places. 
They have a Mine of Briniftone, and much Pumice-ftones, which are Let out 
to one of the Inhabitants, for fifteen hundred Piaftres a year. Three miles from 
the Town, there are hot Baths of Sulphur, where People come from fcveral 
places to wafli, and many recover their heahh .there. The Port is fix miles 
, long, three over, and has a good depth of water. Two miles from this Port, 
there is a Grotto in form of a large Chamber, wherein there is luke-warm 
A Bath of ^"2ter, which gives fomuch heat, that an artificial Bath cannot make one fweat 
hot Water more. They fay,that the water of this Grot t has an inrercourfe with the Church 
that reaches of St. Conftantine^ that is fix miles North of it ; and to meke a proof of this, one 
fix miles. day they put a Silver Cupinto this Bath, which they found again in the Fountain 
of the faid Church of ?>t,Confi amine. In this Ide^there is a Town where two thou- 
fand five hundred Souls live ^ and an old C3l[le,inhabited by five hundred more : 
The Town ftands in a Plain, with a Caftle in the middle of it, but not inhabi- 
ted. They have a Latin Bifhop, and a Greek Bifliop ^ the Latin Cathedral is 
without the Town, dedicated to St. Pertr, but without any Ornaments, and 
the Latin Bifhop celebrates iin a Chapel that joyns to one of the Greek Churches j 
this Bifhop has a great many Tithes, which he divides with the Greek Bifliop, 
taking two thirds to himfelf, and giving the Greek the other third. The 
Greek Bifhop hath feveral well built Churches in good repair, and many Priefts 
to officiate in them. Moll; of the Inhebitants of this Ifland are6'rff^j, who live 
much at their eafe,are civil,but very wicked and perfidious. Their Women go 
in a very ugly drefs, fpeak very ill,and cannot pronounce the letter ( L ) They 
are very charitable and kind to Strangers. The People live here comraodioufly 
enough, 
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