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Title: Travels in Italy, Greece, and the Ionian Islands. : In a series of letters, description of manners, scenery, and the fine arts.
Year: 1820 (1820s)
Authors: Williams, Hugh William, 1773-1829
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. London : Hurst, Robinson, and Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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good deeds, and recom-mending him to the prophet. When the bodyis interred, a board is placed diagonally over it,from the head to the foot of the grave, so that, inmany instances, a part of the board projects abovethe earth. The Turks alone can have uprightmonuments annexed to the horizontal tomb-stone.Those of the Greeks, Jews, Franks, and Armenians,are all flat, but of different construction. The monu-ments of the Turkish females, too, are unlike thoseof the males. According to the size and appear-ance of the turban placed at the head of the grave,the age and rank of the deceased Turk is denoted.Square holes are cut through the slab which is laidon every grave, to allow, it is said, the soul to havecommunication with the body, if it should thinkproper to make a journey from the skies. Youwill perceive then, that the Turks allow the femalesto have souls, though they rarely educate them tohave ideas. The burying-ground at Patras is anovel object to a stranger from Catholic or Protest-
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GREEK DANCES. 225 ant Europe, to the cemeteries of which, a Turkishcemetery has no resemblance. The monumentalstones, which are, in many instances, the remainsof ancient edifices, will not fail to attract the tra-vellers attention. We have seen a couple of Greek dances, whichafforded us considerable amusement. The firstwas circular, and was performed by men, each hold-ing the hands of those next him. The air to whichthey moved had a very limited range of notes, andwas played on a kind of pipe, while a drum beattime. Each person sung it in succession, andmoved round with considerable gesticulation, theperson at the head threading every opening. Thisdance is supposed to have some resemblance to thatintroduced by Theseus, to commemorate the de-struction of the Minotaur in the Cretan labyrinth.The second dance was something like the first, cir-cular, and performed by men, but the music wasmore like a Scotch lilt; each person had a hand-kerchief in his hand, which was held likewise byhis n

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