l6i NOTES TO CHIME IIAnOT.n.

name, however, is not uncommon, some otherPolyzois may have edited the Epistles of Ari-

SlCLMlCtUS.

It is to he regretted that the system of con-tinental blockade has closed the few channelsthrough which the Greeks received their publi-cations, particularly Venice and Trie.stc. Eventhe common grammars for children are becometoo dear for the lower orders. Amongst theiroriginal works the Geography of iVJelcMus, Arch-bishop of Athens , and a multitude of theologicalquartos and poetical pamphlets are to bo metwith: their grammars and lexicons of two, three,and four languages are numerous and excellent.Their poetiy is in rlivme. The most singularpiece I have lately seen is a satire in dialoguebetween a Russian , English , and French tra-veller, and the VVaywode of Wallachia (orBlackbey, as they term him), an archbishop,a merchant, and Cogi^ Bachi (or primate), insuccession; to all of whom under the Turks thewriter attributes their present degeneracy. Theirsongs are sometimes pretty and pathetic, buttheir tunes genera^y unplcasing to the ear of aFrank: the best is the famous7T0JV by the unfortunate Riga .

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