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1 observed that they kept aloof for several days after-
wards, and would never again accept of any of our food,
even pudding or cake, fearing that we should mix up
the unclean meat. The porcupine, which was one of
our most delicious foods, was also offensive to them ; but
they afterwards, on each hunting excursion, reported to
our interpreter that they had shot and left for us to fetch
away various animals. One day two bears were reported
to be left, but my Greek cook here had his prejudices,
although he made no allowance for the religious scruples
of the Turks.
I have mentioned in my Journals of 1838 and 1840,
the sculptures built into the walls of the ancient Acro-
polis, and have in them given representations of many.
To remove these was our next object. The wall had been
put together by the Romans, and is wholly composed of
the ruins of some extremely ancient ornamented building,
which most probably stood near the present site of the
wall. On the other side of the Acropolis a similar wall
is formed, running across the arc of the theatre. This
is chiefly composed of the seats and ornamented chairs
which formed the upper circles and places of honour in
the theatre. The whole of the architecture, sculpture
and inscriptions found upon the Acropolis and on its
monuments in the rear, are of early Eastern character,
and distinct from the Greek, which is the only style of
art found in the other parts of the ruins in which we
had been working. Eleven stones were lowered by means
of long ropes (hawsers) down the almost perpendicular
1 observed that they kept aloof for several days after-
wards, and would never again accept of any of our food,
even pudding or cake, fearing that we should mix up
the unclean meat. The porcupine, which was one of
our most delicious foods, was also offensive to them ; but
they afterwards, on each hunting excursion, reported to
our interpreter that they had shot and left for us to fetch
away various animals. One day two bears were reported
to be left, but my Greek cook here had his prejudices,
although he made no allowance for the religious scruples
of the Turks.
I have mentioned in my Journals of 1838 and 1840,
the sculptures built into the walls of the ancient Acro-
polis, and have in them given representations of many.
To remove these was our next object. The wall had been
put together by the Romans, and is wholly composed of
the ruins of some extremely ancient ornamented building,
which most probably stood near the present site of the
wall. On the other side of the Acropolis a similar wall
is formed, running across the arc of the theatre. This
is chiefly composed of the seats and ornamented chairs
which formed the upper circles and places of honour in
the theatre. The whole of the architecture, sculpture
and inscriptions found upon the Acropolis and on its
monuments in the rear, are of early Eastern character,
and distinct from the Greek, which is the only style of
art found in the other parts of the ruins in which we
had been working. Eleven stones were lowered by means
of long ropes (hawsers) down the almost perpendicular