gathering the lemons; but the principal season is December and January. In time of peace, cargoes of this fruit are sent to Constantinople and other places.

HYDRA.

March 19, 1828-I was received at Hydra, with much hospitality, by Basil Budures. According to a calculation lately made, there are 18,000 Hydriots resident in the island besides these, are 2000 or 3000 strangers. The condition of the Youth of Hydra is most unhappy there are no Tutors, no Libraries, no means of passing their time usefully: they seem to grow up in complete inaction. I know not how life can be endured in such a manner.

March 23-Having obtained permission from the Primates to preach, I mounted the pulpit in the principal Church, after the close of the Liturgy. I spoke for about an hour, and afterwards conversed with the Hegoumenos and others of the Clergy. I informed them of the zeal of my countrymen for the extension of Christianity; of the exertions of the Bible Society; of the conversion of the South-Sea Islands; and of similar subjects.

I have been greatly shocked with various recitals given me relative to the state of anarchy in which Hydra has long been placed. A man died here some time since who confessed, on his death-bed, that he had murdered seventeen men and one woman. Another Hydriot is still living with impunity, who has killed the

father of the Conduriottis, and five or six other Greeks: one of these was his brother-in-law. At the breaking out of the Revolution, he assassinated all the Jews who were in the island, eleven in number; and he has murdered eleven or twelve Turks in cold blood.

March 24, 1828

-The persons to whom Mr. Brewer and I had entrusted the Scriptures for sale have not been very active: one of them has sold five copies of the large, and three of the small edition: the other, eleven of the large, and two of the small. I myself have been more successful; having sold, during the few days I have spent here, twenty-three copies of the large, and thirty-six of the small edition. I also sold four copies of Mr. Jowett's Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, and a considerable number of Tracts. To some poor persons I gave a few Testaments, and other books, gratis. I departed from Hydra, thankful

for all the favours which I have received in that island. As the weather was exceedingly calm, we did not arrive at Kastri (the Ancient Hermione) till after sun-set.

KASTRI.

March 25-They inform me that there are in Kastri 200 houses. I have been conversing with the four Priests who live here, and with other inhabitants. To each of the Priests I presented an Ancient Greek Testament, and seven copies of the large Testament were purchased: many more would have been sold, if I had had them. We walked together over the site of the

Ancient Hermione: little or nothing remains of all its temples and buildings. Tragopogon porrifolius, Reseda lutea, and many other ornaments of the vegetable kingdom, now flower and flourish where men once lived. The ancient town was situated on a peninsula, between two excellent harbours. Kastri is built on a rising ground behind it. Fevers prevail here in August and September. The inhabitants are, for the most part, poor; and support themselves either by working as daylabourers, or by a few boats which sail to the neighbouring ports. I found a Schoolmaster teaching Ancient Greek to twenty Scholars; but he was preparing to depart.

March 26, 1828-This morning I rose very early, in order to be ready for Church. The Sermon, however, did not commence till sun-rise. The bell sounded, and I found a considerable Congregation assembled in the Church, called the Metropolis. After an immense number of Kyrie Eleesons, a Priest called out "Begin;" and I accordingly commenced, with a short prayer. I afterward preached from the words, Be ye reconciled to God. The people, who are almost all of the lower orders, seemed lost in astonishment; being evidently quite perplexed at hearing a Frank preaching about Christ, whilst they did not observe him kissing pictures, crossing himself, or performing any other of those actions which they always account the most essential marks of Christianity. I confide in God alone for a happy result of my endeavours.

Almost immediately after the Sermon, I went to a Monastery, which is at the distance of half-an-hour: an Inscription over the gateway denotes that it is dedicated to our Saviour and the wonder-working Anargyri. Here I found a considerable number of Manuscripts, and spent much time in examining them. Amongst the rest, there are two Lectionaries of the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles. They are evidently of no great antiquity, as they are on glazed paper, with cursive letters and accents. It is not, however, unworthy of notice, that both of them omit the disputed passage, 1 John V.7.

March 27, 1828-Conversing with the Hegoumenos and another Caloyer, the latter made a remark, which I have frequently heard repeated in Greece; viz. that the English believe in the transmigration of souls. Whence this idea had its origin, it would be difficult to determine. Another man lately observed, that he had always understood there were exceedingly few Christians in England.

KRANIDI.

The distance from Kastri to this place is an hour-anda-half. They assure me that there are here 700 houses. Soon after my arrival, I called on Joseph, the Bishop of Andrussa, who had written to me a very friendly Letter whilst I was in Ægina. He is one of the most virtuous and well-informed Prelates of the Morea. had much interesting conversation; and he described to me his sufferings whilst detained a prisoner, with the

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other Bishops, in Tripolitza. Having observed that it was the spoils of Tripolitza which gave rise to the dissensions and other evils which proved so injurious to the Greek cause, he added, that this circumstance gave him to understand the reason why God had commanded an utter destruction of the spoils taken at Jericho. Indeed, the evils which have been occasioned, during the Greek Revolution, by the captive women and the plunder, seem calculated to throw some light, not only on the prohibition of spoil, but also on the command of utter extermination laid upon the Israelites. The Turkish Women have been a snare even to several of the Greek Bishops; and they have thereby occasioned not only incalculable injury to these Ecclesiastics themselves, but they have also brought infinite scandal on their profession. I walked, with a nephew of the Bishop, to a Monastery, about a mile distant, at the port. This young man informed me, that, during the three years which the Bishop has resided here, no less than twentyeight murders have been perpetrated at Kranidi. In the Monastery, I looked over a volume of Modern-Greek Sermons: according to the table of Contents, one of the Discourses shews that the Holy Virgin suffered more than all the Martyrs, and even more than Christ Himself!'

Kranidi has the reputation of being an extremely healthy place. It suffers, however, from the scarcity of water no springs are to be met with: a few wells, some of which become frequently dry in summer, are