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instruments proper for making them. It was CHAP. 
not possible to procure the most ordinary do- 
mestic utensils, nor a single article of curriery 2 . 
Specimens of antient art are less rare. A 
and Gems. 
goldsmith sold to us some beautiful gold medals, 
of Alexander and of Philip, for double their 
weight in Venetian sequins. He had several 
gems of great beauty in his possession, but he 
estimated them as if he intended to make his 
fortune by the sale of them. Some of these are 
perhaps now in England. One of them was a 
small red and white sardonyx cam&o; the sub- 
ject, Jupiter, in his war with the Giants, hurling 
the thunder; the god being represented in a 
(2) A couple of old Turkish saddles, which had belonged to the late 
Mr. Tweddell, were first recommended and afterwards sold to us by 
Spiridion Logotheti, the English Consul, at an enormous price, as his 
own property : possession in ATHENS, as elsewhere, with regard to 
Mr. TieeddelCs effects, being considered equal to " nine points of the 
law." He knew very welt that our future travels in Greece depended, 
hi a great measure, upon this acquisition, and he took care to profit 
by the occasion. All subsequent travellers have noticed his rapacity. 
When Stuart was in Athens, be met with similar treatment from our 
Consul : and as long as these situations are held by Greeks, English- 
men who visit the country will be liable to their exactions. Hardly a 
day passed without a demand from this man for money, uftder some 
pretext or other. This Note is therefore inserted as a caution to the 
number of our countrymen now visiting Greece; that they may have 
as little intercourse as possible with Greeks calling themselves English 
Consuls, or really acting; in that capacity. 
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