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city, and a very handsome woman. Being in 
the costume of the place of her nativity, as sl^e 
herself informed us, it was evident, from her 
appearance, that the elder females of Epirus 
dress better, and in a more comely style than 
those of Greece: they bind up their braided 
hair around the head, after the manner repre- 
sented in antient sculpture ; and they wear a 
more decent and becoming apparel than the 
Greek matrons; of whom, in general, nothing is 
conspicuous but what ought to be concealed. 
Modern Lebade/v coutaius fifteen hundred houses. 
if^arfea. A commcrcc is here carried on, in the produce 
of Attica, Boeotia, and Thessnly. The archon 
received an order from Constantinople, the day 
after our arrival, to purchase the worth of fifty 
thousand piastres in oil; for which purpose he 
sent to Athens, to buy up all the oil that could be 
found. He told us that the produce of Auicay 
in oil, exceeded that of all the rest of Greece, 
The streets of the town are narrow and ill 
paved. Water is seen falling in all directions ; 
so numerous are the conduits and channels for 
supplying mills and reservoirs from the bed of 
the Hercyna. This river issues with great force 
Hieron of ^0^1 beucath a rock, a few paces from the old 
niut"' Hieron of Trophonius. Among all that now 
