250 DELPHI. 
CHAP, the soil beinof extremely fertile, and the natural 
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I ■' i industry of the inhabitants, many of whom are 
jilbanians, being very great. The wine pro- 
duced over all the south side of the mountain is 
excellent ; and there is not a resident Turk to 
be found. 
Medals. Upon our return to the house where we had 
lodged, we examined a few medals which our 
host had collected among the inhabitants, during 
our absence ; and we obtained one, in silver, of 
very great rarity. It was a small medal of 
CEta in Thessaly, in excellent preservation, 
and the die remarkably fine. In front it ex- 
hibits the head of the Nemecean Lion, champing 
the arrow of Hercules between his jaws ; and 
upon the obverse side, the naked figure of the 
hero, in the moment of his apotheosis upon 
Jilount CEta, his head radiated, and holding his 
knotted club between his hands, with the 
legend OITAIHN; thus written from right to 
left, NfllATIO. This exceedingly rare medal is 
not known to exist in any other collection than 
that of the Abbe Neumann, at present forming a 
part of the Imperial cabinet at Vienna ; where, 
however, there is no example of it in such perfect 
preservation. It may be considered as one of 
