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 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 :

, rainbow.

, arch, Syra, Kymi (Euboea), Cephalonia, Chimarra (Epirus), Eurytania, etc.

, glory (only an abbreviation of a word, not ex- actly meaning glory), Mykonos, Andros, Kythnos, Karystos, Levadia, Anachona (Bœotia), Doride, Redestos (Thrace).

, arch of God, Nauplia, Lamia.

, the arch of the old woman, Leu- cade (Santa Maura).

, arch of the nun, Ithaca.

, belt of our lady, Naxia.

, Paros, Kythnos.

, Siphnos.

Sikinos.

Thera, Milos, Amorgos ( ?).

The meaning of these words cannot be traced

Thera, Milos, Amorgos ( ?)., Chios, Mitylini (perhaps first ,  belt of St. Helen).