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examining the Town and its Ruins. Ars:os is a CHAP. 
VIIT. 
large straggling place, full of cottages, with 
few good houses. As we have before alluded 
to Celtic remains in this part of Peloponnesus, it 
may be proper to mention, that the roofs here 
are not flat, as in almost all parts of the East, 
but slope like those of Northern nations. The 
same style of building may be observed in 
Athens, and in other parts of Greece: whether 
introduced by Albanian workmen, or owing to 
customs which antiently existed in the country, 
we have not been able to learn The women 
were busied in collecting their cotton from 
the fields ; and at this season of the year all 
the marriages take place. The present po- 
pulation consists of six thousand, including 
females and children 4 . There is a school kept 
by a Greek priest. Being desirous to know 
what the children were taught, we visited the 
master, who seemed pleased by our inquiries, 
as if he had bestowed pains upon his scholars. 
He said they were instructed in writing, arith- 
metic, astronomy, physic, and rhetoric. About 
forty years before, it had been customary for 
(4) " Not four thousand,*' according to Sir W. Gelli (Itin, of 
Greece, p. 69.) perhaps not including children and women. 
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tion. 
