100 ISLAND OF NAXOS. 
CHAP, modes, by the earliest opportunity, either from 
i - - _* Paris or London. 
Population. The population has not been altered since 
Naxos was visited by Tournefort : that of the 
whole island, including the women, may be esti- 
mated at eighteen thousand persons : about 
three thousand of this number are Latins, and 
the rest are Greeks. During war, they pay 
forty purses as a tax to the Turkish Govern- 
ment, each purse being equivalent to five hun- 
dred piastres. In time of peace, very little 
impost is levied. Their wine maintains its pris- 
tine celebrity, and we thought it excellent. The 
Latin families live together in the castle, or 
fortress, separated from the Greeks, not only 
by situation, but by numberless petty feuds and 
jealousies. We found fragments of a red por- 
phyry here, much resembling lava. In the 
evening, it rained, which was quite a novel 
spectacle to us at that time. The archbishop 
had again prepared his table for us ; and, as we 
had refused his dinner, we went to sup with 
him. He had also provided beds, and every 
other necessary convenience for our accommo- 
dation; but as the impossibility of making any 
adequate return for such civilities is often a 
painful reflection upon these occasions, we 
