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CHAP. 
VIII. 
Albanese 
Women. 
FROM THE STRAITS OF THERMOPYL.^ 
by fire three months before. It has been be- 
lieved that Zeitun was the antient Lamia ; and 
we were of this opinion: but Meletius, the 
archbishop of Joannina, entertained different 
sentiments. We found his work upon Geo- 
graphy in the Consufs house, and it was the 
first time that we had seen it. The name of 
this place has been written Zeituni and Zituni, 
but its inhabitants write it Zeitun. One argu- 
ment which may be urged against this position 
of Lamia is, that there are no antiquities upon 
the spot. We could find nothing as a trace 
of the former existence of any Grecian city. 
The town is governed by a JVaiiuode, a Disdar, 
and a Cadi; but all these together, with several 
Beys who reside here, are under the dominion 
of ^li Pasha, and they tremble at the sound of 
his name. There are from eight hundred to a 
thousand houses in Zeitun, and about a thousand 
shops. The inhabitants are Turks and Greeks. 
Their commerce is altogether ruined : it con- 
sisted in the exportation of silk, cotton, and 
corn. We could not avoid remarking a very 
great resemblance between the Albanian ivomen 
of Zeitun, and those of India whom we had 
seen with our army in Egypt : they resem- 
ble that Lido- European tribe called Gipsies in 
England, whose characteristic physiognomy has 
