Letters from the Levant: Containing Views of the State of Society, Manners, Opinions, and Commerce, in Greece, and Several of the Principal Islands of the Archipelago (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Letters From the Levant: Containing Views of the State of Society, Manners, Opinions, and Commerce, in Greece, and Several of the Principal Islands of the Archipelago

VIII. Zante - The appearance of the island, 40. Custom of the peasants, 41. Population and climate, 41. Natural curiosities, 42. The town of Tents, 43. State of the clergy, 43. State of the schools, 44. Appearance of the people, 44. Pawn bank, 45. The utility of a similar institution in London, 46. Public granary, 46. Value Of'land, 47. Jews, 47. Quoit players, 47. Antient English burying-ground, 47. Wells, 48.

IX. Zante. - Society, 49. Albanian regiment, 53. Doubts as to the correctness of our proceedings towards the Sultan, 54 The provisional government, 55. Political relationship of the island, 56. A tax on snufl' to make and mend roads.

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