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credible witnesses at the present day; hence, perhaps, the origin of the legend of the dragon. Ross, Eeisen, iii. pp. 93-95, supposes this monster to have been a crocodile brought from Egypt in some ship—an improbable conjecture.
¹²² For views of this chapel and of the frescoes in the crypt, see Rottier, Monumens de Rhodes, pll. 58-67, c.
¹²³ Now in the British Museum. ¹²⁴ Now in the British Museum. ¹²⁵ See T. Wright, Narratives of Sorcery and Magic, i. p. 170, ii. pp. 90, 100, 161, 211, 283, for instances of this superstition.
¹²⁶ At the rate of 118 piastres to the pound sterling.
¹²⁷ I am glad to state that since these remarks have been written, the Smyrna hospital has been set in order.
¹²⁸ Ross, Reisen, iii. init.
¹²⁹ Ross, Reisen, iv. p. 10.
¹³⁰ Von Halm, Alban. Studien, p. 150, note, mentions this as an Albanian custom.
¹³¹ I am assured by Mr. Alfred Biliotti, British Vice-Consul at Rhodes, and by other credible persons resident in the Archipelago, that they have seen divers descend thirty fathoms. I cannot, however, hear of any well-authenticated instance of a diver remaining under water more than two minutes, if as much. See Spratt and Forbes, Lycia, ii. p. 125.
¹³² Spratt and Forbes, Lycia, ii. p. 1 27.
¹³³ See K. F. Hermann, Lehrbuch d. Gottesd. Alterth. § 19, 18.
¹³⁴ See the remarks on this type of Venus, Smith and Porcher, Cyrene, p. 96.
¹³⁵ K. F. Hermann, Lehrbuch d. Griech. Staats Alterth. § 142. ¹³⁶ This inscription is now in the British Museum, having been obtained for me by the kind intervention of a friend at Calyinnos in 1858.
¹³⁷Engraved with two other coats, one of which is Quirini of Venice, Ross, Reisen, ii. p. 92.
¹³⁸Ross, Inscript. Ined. ii. No. 179.
¹³⁹Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, i. p. 233.
¹⁴⁰Ross, Inscript. Ined. ii. No. 18O.
¹⁴¹These are probably the coins noticed by Borrell, Numismatic Chronicle, ix. p. 165.
¹⁴²For this word, see Leake's Travels in the Morea, i. p. 366, note; Meursius, Glossarium Grajco-Barbanim, s. v. μετόχιον