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to in the best ages of the art', it is almost chap. 
superfluous to add, that the finest works of . ^^' . 
antiquity afford decisive proofs to the contrary'. 
The other antiquities of Salonica consist of soro*. 
marble Soroiy found in different parts of the 
town, as cisterns, both in the courts of the 
houses, and in the streets. There is no place 
in Turkey where a greater number of false 
medals are offered for sale. The genuine coins Medals. 
of antiquity are, in general, too cheap, to admit 
of the possibility of their fraudulent imitation, 
for purposes of gain ; but in Salonica the Jews 
have devised a wretched imitation of some of 
the Grecian coins, by means of casts in silver. 
Iq speaking of spurious coins, the traveller 
should, however, be upon his guard against 
considering as such, the large silver tetra- 
drachms of Thasos and of HeracUa Syntica, sold 
frequently by the Jews of this city ; which, with 
every appearance of being factitious — a rough 
surface and want of sharpness in the edges of 
the letters, as if cast in a mould of sand, are 
undoubtedly genuine. The quantity of such 
(3) " Dans les temps ilu bon goCit les figures ^taient en perspec- 
tive." Ibid. 
(3) Witness the ullureliei'os of the Parthenon, and the sculpture 
upon the Tower of the IVinds at Athens, &c. tec. 
