ISLAND OF NAXOS. 89 
hundred piastres annually, out of a flock of five 
hundred sheep and goats: and this sum they 
spend in the few necessaries or indulgences 
they may require. We killed and dressed one 
of their sheep: the mutton had a very bad 
flavour. 
The island has no port on its eastern side: it Appearance 
is there mountainous, but the soil is bleak and 
barren. The rocks in this part of it consist of 
alternate strata of schistus and limestone. We 
noticed a stratum of primary limestone, sur- 
mounted by schisius; and above that was a layer 
of a soft kind of Cipolino marble, striped blue 
and white. The next day, October the six- 
teenth, we landed to collect plants, and to 
examine the traces of buildings above this little 
bay; which may be called Panormo Creek, for it 
merits no higher consideration. We found the 
remains of walls, built above precipices, in 
which cement had been used ; and noticed a 
door, with a small room that had once been 
stuccoed. In a rude chapel, which the shep- 
herds had constructed of loose stones, we ob- 
served a fragment of antique marble ; but, upon 
the whole, these works had much more the 
appearance of buildings hastily constructed by 
pirates than by any people acquainted with 
