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The chief produce of the land is wine, cotton, chap. 
VII. 
and corn. The wine is excellent. The village ^ 
belongs to Logoiheii, archon of Lebadca: his 
brother resides here to collect his rents, who 
paid us a visit upon our arrival. The people simplicity 
of Felitza expressed great joy at seeing us; uves: 
being simple and superstitious enough to believe 
that the fall of rain was owing to the coming 
of strangers. They had not seen rain before, 
they said, for an entire twelvemonth. During 
the melting of the snow upon Parnassus, there 
is, however, such a supply of v>'ater, that the 
Cachales is hardly fordable on horseback, 
although its bed is very wide. Here we heard 
again the absurd story of the destruction of 
Thiva (Thebes) by means of this torrent; mean- 
ing by Thiva the PaJceo- Castro, at a short 
distance in the plain; — a story altogether 
destitute of probability. But a people who 
could believe that a visit paid to their village by 
a couple of travellers caused the rain to fall 
upon their land, are capable of giving faith to 
any thing. They are at present in a most Their mi- 
wretched condition, owing to the extortions of condition. 
j4li Pasha, or of those who have plundered in his 
name. In the short space of six months, they 
had paid to his tax-gatherers, as they told us, 
eighty purses ; a sum equivalent to forty 
