The number of Greek families in Salonica is said to be about 2,000. The greater part of this population is engaged in commerce; and many of the Greek merchants resident here have acquired considerable property from this source. The trade they carry on is in some measure subordinate to that of the Frank merchants of Salonica; but they have likewise extensive independent connections with Germany, Constantinople, Smyrna, Malta, and various parts of Greece. They do not possess so much reputation in literature as their countrymen of Ioannina, owing perhaps to the difference which their situation produces in the nature of their commercial concerns.
