164 ISLAND OF ZIA. 
CHAP, of cloak made of goat's hair, which is sold in 
in. 
the port, is said by Tournefort to be manufac- 
tured in Z'ia : but in this he was mistaken ; for 
those cloaks are brought to Z'ia from the Isle of 
Joura, pronounced Zoura, near Salonica. There 
has been a great defalcation in the sale of the 
Felani acorns : formerly they sold for forty 
pounds sterling the quintal; and when we ar- 
rived, the dealers in this article were glad to 
get fifteen pounds sterling for the same quan- 
tity. The produce of the island in these acorns 
alone amounts annually to fifteen thousand 
quintals. 
It being Sunday, we found nobody at the 
quay, and therefore set off for the town, and 
the only one upon the island ; it is at the di- 
stance of three miles from the harbour: we 
passed through a valley towards it, and after- 
wards ascended to the hill on which it stands. 
j^ i s built upon the site of the antient Carthcea, 
after the manner of the town of Syra, but in the 
form of a theatre, and upon a much higher 
mountain ; the houses being erected in terraces 
one above another, so that the roofs of a range 
of dwellings below serve as a street to another 
range above. Those streets, as at Syra y are 
beyond description filthy. Such a singular 
