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the total area being 3,326 squiuc milos, and pojuilation 294,190. The gi'eat majority of the inhabitants are Christians, the nunibci' of M(jlunnmedans being about 88,000. The cliicf towns arc Cauea, the present cajtital, with a population of 22,000: Camlia, the former capital, with 14,000 inhabitants; Kethymo, with 10,000.

The Island is mountainous, but, in the lower grounds, i'ertile. the products being fruits, the gra])e, tobacco, cotton, silk, &c.

British. Consul-Geiieral, at Cauea. — Sir Alfred Biliotti, K.C. M.C, C. B.

There are British Vice-Consuls at Candia and Rethymo.

Books of Reference concerning Crete.

Ardaillon (E.), Kcpaitiliuii iles chivtieiis et des iiuisulinans dans I'ilc Crete. In Annales GeOiiraphiqueK. il (ISit?), pp. "i'lrj-iyT. Paris.

Bick/ordSmith (R. A. H.), Cretan Sketches. London, 1897.

Conibend'.), L'lle de Crete. Paris, 1897.

Dillon (E. J.), Crete and the Cretans. In Furtn^ghtly Review for May, 1897.

Freest {i. H.), A Short Popular History of Crete. Loudon, 1897.

Luroche (Cli.), La Crete aneienne et nioderne. Paris, 1898.

Mitchfll (O.), The Greek, the Cretan, and the Turk. London, 1897.

liejiort by J. Biiwrinj,' on E;^ypt and Candia. London, 1840. — Report by Consul Long- worth on the Causes of the Insurrection in IS'iS. — Reports. Correspondence, and further Correspondence respecting Crete, 186t)-b8, 1877-79, 18SS-91, lS9.')-98.

SAMOS.

An island off the coast of A.sia Minor, forming a princi{)ality under the sovereignty of Turkey, under the guarantee of France, Great Britain, and Russia, December 11, 1832,

Area 180 .square miles; population (1898) 51,745. There are besides, 13,500 natives living on the coast of Asia Minor. There are 619 foreigners, of whom 565 aie Greeks. In 1897 there were 392 marriages, 1,757 births, 737 deaths.

The religion is the Greek Orthodox, all, except 36, of the inhabitants professing it.

The estimated revenue for 1897-98 was 3,538,698 piastres, and expendi- ture the same. Theie is no public debt.

The exports for 1897 were valued at 18,547,718 piastres, and imports 19,264,302 piastres. The chief exports were wines, grapes, hides, oil. The chief imports were spirits, cereals, tissues.

In 1897, 4,639 vessels of 362,877 tons entered the [port of Bathy: the vessels were mostly Turkish, Greek, and Austrian, The vessels belonging to the island were 3,069 of 3,691 tons.

In 1897, 76,730 letters pa.ssed through the Po.st OfKce, and 9,641 ])ackets of }»rinted matter. The numlier of telegraphic despatches was 5,518.

Diplomatic and Consular Representatives.

1. Of TUilKEY IX GUEAT BUITAIN.

Ambassador. — Costaki Anthopoulo Pasha.

Cmnicillor uf Emhctssy. — Abdul Hak Hamid Bey,

First Secretary. — A. Rustem Bey.

Second Secretary. — Fa id Be}'.

There are Con.sular repie.sentatives of Turkey at the following places: —

Consul-Gcneral at Liveryiool, Kianul Efiendi.

Co7istih or ]'icc-Consiih. — Birmingham, Dul)liii, Jersey, Xewca.stle-on- Tyne, Cardiff, Glasgow, Hartlepool, Hull, Leith, Manchester, Southampton, Sunderland, Swansea, ic.