pastoral, and domestic life, the terms of natural history in the people's language, for instance, of the fauna and flora of Greece in all the different parts of the country, and also the description of ceremonies, especially of weddings, in their va- riety and peculiarity to locality.
The following copy, which I was allowed to make, will serve to illustrate this part of the work ; it will also illustrate some of the wonder- ful poetical beauties of the Greek dialects and the richness of the language :
(
Greek characters), rainbow.
(Greek characters), arch, Syra, Kymi (Euboea), Cephalonia, Chimarra (Epirus), Eurytania, etc.
(Greek characters), glory (only an abbreviation of a word, not ex-
actly meaning glory), Mykonos, Andros, Kythnos,
Karystos, Levadia, Anachona (Bœotia), Doride,
Redestos (Thrace).
(Greek characters), arch of God, Nauplia, Lamia.
(Greek characters), the arch of the old woman, Leu-
cade (Santa Maura).
(Greek characters), arch of the nun, Ithaca.
(Greek characters), belt of our lady, Naxia.
(Greek characters), Paros, Kythnos.
(Greek characters), Siphnos.
(Greek characters) Sikinos.
(Greek characters) Thera, Milos, Amorgos
((Greek characters) ?).
The meaning of these words cannot be traced
(Greek characters) Thera, Milos, Amorgos
((Greek characters) ?). , Chios, Mitylini (perhaps first
(Greek characters), belt of St. Helen).
