48 ISLAND OF PATMOS. 
CHAP, the same which the Abbe Barthelemy and other 
writers have noticed; but their history has 
never been illustrated. Besides these, he ob- 
served, in a Manuscript of very diminutive size, 
the curious work of PHILE upon Animals 1 , con- 
taining an account of the Ibis, bound up with 
twenty-three other Tracts upon a great variety 
of subjects 2 . After removing these volumes 
from a quantity of theological writings, detached 
fragments, worm-eaten wooden covers (that 
had belonged to books once literally bound in 
loards), scraps of parchment, Lives of Hermits, 
and other litter, all further inquiry was stopped 
by the promptitude and caution of Mr. Riley, 
who told us the Superior had agreed to sell the 
few articles we had selected, but that it would 
be impossible to purchase more; and that even 
these would be lost, if we ventured to expose 
them to the observation of any of the inhabi- 
tants of the town. Then telling us what sum he 
had agreed to give for them, he concealed two 
of the smaller volumes in the folds of his 
Turkish habit, entrusting to the honour of the 
two Caloyers the task of conveying the others 
(2) See Professor Gat/ford's " Catalogue five Notitut Alanuterijt- 
torum," ifc. p. 62. Ojcon. 1812. 
