Excerpt from Littell's Living Age, Vol. 9: April, May, June, 1846 Tor is a wretched collection of hovels built of gray coral and mud; and so close to the water's edge. That on lookin at the petty embankment, consisting of stems 0 date palms laid along blocks of coral, whose duty it is to resist the inroads of the sea, one could not help entertaining an idea of insecurity. The inhabitants, however, do not appear to be at all incommoded by such a redeo tion. They are an indolent race of Greeks, con sisting of about a dozen families, whose spiritual interests are attended to Iy a priest from the mon artery of Mount Sinai, the contented occupant ofa domicile not less squalid than those of his parish ioners. Fishing, the sale of dates, and the sup plying of water to such ships as touch at the spot, constitute their chief means of livelihood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.