340 LARISSA. 
CHAP, streets, we saw very few antiquities : they coii- 
. sisted of the broken shafts of Corinthian pillars, 
and cornices. The coemetery near the town, 
by the prodigious quantity of marble it con- 
tains, hewn into the most barbarous imitations 
of Turkish tiaras, such as calpacks and turbans, 
offers a convincing testimony of the havoc made 
by the Moslems of Larissa, among works of 
Grecian art, during the long period that this 
city has been in their possession. We found 
here some antient sepulchral marbles, used for 
Turkish tomb-stones, with Greek inscriptions, 
mentioning merely the names and countries of 
the deceased : but no other inscription, nor a 
single entire column, could be seen. There 
was a conak at this place ; but we found it to 
Eviidis- be absolutely uninhabitable, and the people 
position of , , . . . , in 
its inhabi- bclougmg to it wcrc as msolent and fierce as 
savages. We therefore resolved to wait upon 
the Bey, taking care to be accompanied by our 
Tchohodar. After making our way through a 
throng of slaves and attendants, we found him 
in a sumptuous apartment, fitted up after the 
Eastern manner; sitting, not upon the couch, 
but upon the floor of the divan, playing at 
backgammon with another elderly personage, 
who had the distinction of a green turban. He 
was surrounded by effeminate-lookingyoungmen, 
