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very powerful doses. A traveller in Greece vn 
should consider this medicine as absolutely v * 
necessary to his existence, and never journey 
unprovided 2 . The commerce of Nauplia has commerce 
been for some time upon the decline. The 
exports are, oil, spunges, and wine. Formerly, 
the produce of the Morea for exportation, in the 
first of these articles alone, (and almost all of it 
went from Nauplia,} amounted, in a good year, to 
one million of Turkish quilots : even now, if the 
crops have not been deficient, the produce of 
Corinth, Misitra, Nauplia, Argos, &c. is sufficient 
for the freightage of twenty-five vessels. A 
barrel of fine oil sells here for twenty-six or 
twenty-eight piastres; each barrel containing 
forty-eight okes. The other exports of the Morea, 
from this port, are F'elani acorns, vermilion, and 
ivine, of which a great quantity is made, the 
soil of the Peninsula being particularly favoura- 
ble to vineyards. The people of Nauplia were 
early renowned for the cultivation of the vine : 
they formerly worshipped, as an idol, an ass's 
head; because that animal, by browsing the 
(2) Perhaps the arsenic solution, called " tasteless ague drops,'' 
might prove even a more potent remedy ; aud it would be more 
portable, owing to the small quantity of arsenic necessary in its 
preparation. 
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