434 PELOPONNESUS. 
C vn P * vmes taught them the art of pruning 1 . Very 
excellent oil is made at Mitylene, whence a 
considerable quantity comes to Nauplia to be 
exported. They receive also from Misitra forty 
or fifty thousand vkes of silk ; and this is of three 
sorts or qualities : the finest is called (tys) Opst; 
the second sort, Karatch kemi litchi ; and the 
third, Kassagico 2 . There is, perhaps, no place in 
Greece where the antient medals of the country 
may be purchased in greater number, or found 
in a higher state of perfection, than at Nauplia. 
We obtained here the oldest silver medals of 
Corinth, of Argos, of Dorium, in Messenia, and of 
&gina. Old Roman copper coins might be had, 
literally, by the handful. Silver medals of the 
Achaian League, with the head of Jupiter, laurel- 
led, in front, and the monogram >\ on the 
obverse side, were very common. Upon the 
oldest Corinthian silver, the head of Pallas was 
represented, within an indented square; or the 
(1) Vid. Pausan. in Corinthiac. c. 38. p. 201. Lips. 1696. 
(2) We cannot pretend to accuracy in writing these words; they are 
merely an adaptation of the letters of our alphabet to sounds, as they 
seemed to be uttered. The Karatch is a capitation-tax, levied upon 
Greeks and Jews; and possibly the second sort of silk may be the 
result of such a tax, taken in kind. 
