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state of preservation : now it can only be seen chap. 
through its plaster covering:" — and he adds, . 
that he " passed three years in Salonica without 
suspecting any thing of its real nature." 
The next day {December 30) Mr. Cripps Shooting 
• 1 T»/r >^T 1 • Excursion. 
accompanied Mr. Chamaud upon a shooting 
excursion into the country, to provide game for 
our journey ; the Consul being very partial to 
this amusement, and glad to meet with a com- 
panion as fond of it as himself. "We shall find 
plenty of game," said he ; " but you must pro- 
mise to take away with you all the hares that we 
may kill : for the people of this country hold a 
dead hare in such detestation, that if I were to 
dress one for your dinner, I must take the skin 
off and roast it myself; and the consequence 
would be, that none of my servants would 
remain in the house where it was flayed, or 
come into the room where it was eaten." This 
very antient superstition was before alluded to 
in this Work: it was connected with the worship 
of Diana, among the Greeks. But we find that, 
fifteen centuries before the Christian sera, the 
Israelites were taught to consider the hare as 
unclean ; so that even to touch it was an abomi- 
nation. ** The hare, because he cheweth 
THE CUD, BUT DIVIDETH NOT THE HOOF, HE 
