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taken to polish it upon its lateral planes : but CHAP. 
his subsequent remarks, added to his con- 
eluding observation that all Berylls are liable to 
capillary blemishes, and to be vitiated by 
extraneous substances, brings his Beryll at 
once to our Quartz : and this also crystallizes 
in the hexagonal form. 
We arrived at ARGOS, and were most hospi- 
tably received by the English Baratary*, Mr. 
Blasopulo, pronounced Vlasdpulo. He presented 
us, upon our arrival, a silver medal of Ptolemy, 
and some beautiful terra-cotta vases found in ^ erracotla 
Vases. 
sepulchres at a village called Pesopodte, near the 
Inachus, situate to the north of Argos. The 
Albanian peasants by whom they were dis- 
covered had broken many more ; not choosing 
to use vessels that had been taken from graves, 
and conceiving them to be of no value. They 
were all evidently Grecian, and made in an age 
when the Arts were much advanced, if not in 
their most splendid rera 5 . A patera with two 
(a) A Rarniury is a person who enjoys the protection of some nation 
in alliance with the Porte. Mr Rlasoptih was protected by \.\\e British 
nation. 
(6) The annexed Plate exhibits thirteen of the most remarkable 
of the terra cottas found here or at Sicyon, or in other parts of the 
Peloponnesus. 
Fig. \ . is evidently a PATERA ; but for what particular use this vessel 
