76 FROM NEAPOLIS, 
coins alone are found : possibly the peasants 
bring silver only for sale, as the bronze would 
not be purchased for melting. All the medals 
offered to us here were of silver; and it is 
remarkable that the greater number consisted 
of medals of Rhodes, differing in their dies. 
Among them were bad medals oi Alexander; or 
of the Roman emperors, Trajan and Antoninus 
Pius; and there were many Consular coins; — 
also large silver tetradrachms of Heraclea Sin- 
tica, most of which were spurious ; but whether 
they were antient or modern forgeries, we could 
not tell; the metal was not sonorous, nor the 
work sharp ; the die being indistinctly deve- 
loped, and the surface rough. 
The following morning (Jan. 6), being that 
of the celebration of a Greek festival, great 
difficulty occurred in procuring either horses 
for the road, or any Surudji ' to accompany 
them. The author, with the Tchohodar, waited 
upon the Agha, and made known his situation ; 
Disregard 
shewn to at the sauiC time exhibiting his Jirmdn and 
the Fir- 
vidn. passports. The Agha boasted that the Jirmdn 
(l) The SurudJ) is the postillion, or guide, who accompanies post- 
horses in Ttnkey, and takes care of them upon the road. The word 
Surudjt, v-lth two French u's, literally means " aguide;" conducteuv' 
