3 * TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
Law of Mofes, the ten commandments, and other 
parts of the Pentateuch,' were worked with letters cot 
out of black cloth, and fewed on cloth of different 
• colours. In each fynagogue fat a man on one fide of 
the door, dreffed in black or white, reading in the 
books of Mofes; and lev oral people that fat oh 
the benches likewife had them and read after him. 
Coming home, I got an Iris (tuberofa) imberbis, 
corollis apice purpureis. 
Barn aba is one of the prettieft villages round 
Smyrna, being about two hours journey from the 
town, whither we went on horfeback the 2d of 
March. An Aga had the Command of this, as well 
as fome other villages hereabout ; but the laft 
poffeffor of this office having feveral times furniih- 
ed the Franks with occafion of complaint, at the 
beginning of this month they petitioned the Porte to 
difmifs him. He Was accordingly difeharged, by 
Which means, the Franks became more at liberty 
to enjoy the pleafures the country might afford. 
The huibandman was now ploughing the land that 
had been fallow laft year. The foil is here quite 
loofe and eafy to till, and therefore requires little 
labour in cultivation. It confifts chiefly of a loofe 
day mixt with fand and covered with rich mould. 
They always ufe oxen to plough the field; the con- 
ftrudtion of the plough I have deferibed in another 
place. It is amufing to fee them take oft the 
plough-lhare when they have done their work, and 
pilt in on again when they have occafion. We 
puffed by the burying-ground of this place, than 
which many of our country parifhes in Sweden have 
not larger. It fhould therefore feem, that it was 
more than fufficient for a village, which contains 
not above 20 or 20 families; but, to bury after the 
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