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of the queen very prettily, but he has dressed her in a 
modern Greek costume. At the bottom of the picture 
Is written the pretended name of this queen, who is 
called Maria, daughter of Philip Molinos, &c. but it is 
half effaced. 
The monks pretend that they have preserved an an- 
cient manuscript in their convent, which attests that this 
sovereign was their protectress; but no one has seen 
this manuscript, and the comparison of the two build- 
ings discovers the anachronism. It is very certain that 
at the period when the queen's palace was built, the 
Marias, the Philips, and the Molinos, were unknown, 
and still more so, the monks of the monastery of St. 
Chrysostom. 
These poor Greeks, since the period of the lower 
empire, see in every thing monks and monasteries; they 
call the upper part of the palace a church, although it 
is composed of two little square rooms with small nar- 
row doors, without the least indication that it was a place 
of meeting. Other ruins, situated almost at the bottom 
of the rock, are equally considered as the remains of a 
monastery; they are, however, of the same date as the 
principal edifice; as for me, I look upon them as ad- 
vanced redoubts or forts to defend the approach to the 
palace. 
In descending we found, a little nearer to the side of 
the convent, the ruins of a church. Upon examining 
them we discovered our false application of the others. 
But let us elevate our ideas, and look for an origin more 
analogous to the form of the ruins of our singular mo- 
nument, and to the enchanting spot upon which it was 
built. 
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