586 PELOPONNESUS. 
CHAP, appearance of poverty or misery within their cot- 
tages. The houses, like those of the Albanians 
in general, were very neat, although the cattle 
lodged with their owners beneath the same roof. 
Manners ^hc resemblance which the Albanians bear to 
of tha Fea- 
**** the Highlanders of Scotland, in their dress, habits, 
and mode of life, is said to be very striking in 
a land which is more peculiarly their own 1 , and 
where their employments are less agricultural 
than in the Morea ; but even here we could not 
avoid being struck with appearances, forcibly 
calling to mind the manners and customs we 
had often witnessed among Caledonian heaths 
and mountains. The floors were all of earth ; 
and instead of chimnies there was in every 
cottage a hole through the roof; but the walls 
were neatly white-washed, and the hard earthen 
floors were swept, and made as clean as pos- 
sible. Every house had its oven, which was 
kept remarkably clean ; and the whitest bread 
(l) There is an observation upon this subject by J^ord Byron, in 
the Notes to his deathless Poem, " Child* Harold's Pilgrimage." 
" The Arnaouts, or dlbanese, struck me forcibly by their resemblance 
to the Highlanders of Scotland, in dress, figure, and manner of living. 
Their very mountains seemed Caledonian, with a kinder climate. The 
kilt, though white; the spare, active form; their dialect, CELTIC in 
its sound ; and their hardy habits, all carried me back to Morven.'* 
Cliildt HuroleCi PilritMage, Notes to Caiito II. p. 125. Loitrf. 1812. 
