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Rh veil, is called. The altar is a square slab placed on a column. On the altar the priest's vestments lay covered with a cloth. Of the tables C C, the one on the north side is the highest. On it is placed the sacramental cup, or, covered with a cloth. In the walls are archways cut in relief, and in each archway the figure of a saint is painted; the ceiling is also covered with paintings. In the outer division or nave, the paintings on the roof represent our Saviour in the centre, surrounded by the four Evangelists. These paintings are very much blackened by the smoke of the lamps. Those on the roof of the hieron appear old; the rest have been much restored. On the left of the entrance is another small cave, called Apotheke, with niches and a large stone seat cut in the walls. It is now used as a magazine.

From Agia Paraskeue, we rode home by Pyrrha and Ayasso.

, December 15, 1852.

weeks ago I reported to the Embassy a case in which the Pasha and Mejlis of Mytilene had refused to punish a Turk for beating an Ionian. In consequence of this complaint, the Porte, at the instance of Colonel Rose, sent Ali Nehad Effendi, an imperial commissioner, to investigate this charge of mal-administration of justice, who has now been