270 PARNASSUS. 
order is thai of St. Basil: there is, in fact, no 
other order among the Greeks: they profess 
chastity and obedience. Their way of living is 
very austere, for they wholly abstain from flesh. 
Devotional Most of their time is taken up in barbarous 
of the ca- dcvotioual cercmomcs ; either m a recitation, 
against time, of the Psalter, or in bowing and 
kissing the ground ; nor is it possible to con- 
ceive that a Cree Indian, capering before his idol 
in the wilds of North America, exhibits a more 
abject debasement of human intellect, than one 
of these Caloyers in the exercise of his fjuzrocvoiui, 
or bowings ; three hundred of which he is obliged 
to perform every twenty-four hours'. The one 
half of those bowings they perform in the first 
two hours of the night; and the other half at 
midnight, before they arise to matins, which 
are to begin four hours before day, and to end 
with the dawning of the morning. In summer 
time, the day breaks upon them, and the sun 
rises, before their devotions are ended ; so that 
they have scarcely the time and the liberty of 
convenient and natural reposed These devo- 
tions are evidently Heathen ceremonies; and 
the services are also almost Heathen. A traveller 
(1) See Ricaut'a State of the Greek Churcli, pp. 304, 205. Lond. 1 67D. 
(2) Ibid. 
