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AD ALIA.
139
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embo:
marble
tms porom^
a few little st^
was, fa fc|
and being $
«•. One of |
utanceontah
undantlyafli
witer ipiines «■
r ranarbble. I)
at here recorded
:U is well km
free of the nil
iiorbram
of two hundredn
vhwater spring
rith sufficient id
rms told that thfj:
emnuatthe'fc
in >"apl •
he AmdofHK1
the following iko
ituated at a shot:
of Phoenice Is
ypio from thews
in t boat with il»
round wtii'
inrtrument f
fter a little while-
herdeawd.
the coast, sometimes at the distance of a quarter of a mile
from the shore. The bottom of the sea beyond this deposit
is of marble rock, the foundation of the splendid range of
the Taurus.
Friday, April 6th.—I am detained here by the illness 01
my servant, and am enjoying a rest in this delightful cli-
mate. I find the town is small, but clean, and more agree-
able as a residence than any that I have before seen in
this country. The town stands on a cliff rising sixty or
eighty feet above the sea, which has no beach, but breaks
against the overhanging rocks ; these are apparently formed
of, or incrusted by, a stalactitic deposit of lime. I have
returned from a walk laden with flowers, and I now inflict
upon myself the penalty of ignorance by drawing those with
which I am unacquainted: it is a severe one, for their
varieties are numerous, many of them being hothouse plants
in England*. Among them is a shrub in growth and leaf
exactly like the heath, and standing six or eight feet high,
but with the flower of the cistusf. A common shrub here
is a very pretty tree with a blossom resembling the lemon
tree J. There is a great variety of the iris, the most common
being a luxuriant white one, generally with three very
sweet-scented flowers on one stalk • there are also the
orchis, and beautiful varieties of the chickweed, and of the
garlic, whose silvery flower contrasts elegantly with the
green around. The plants found in this country must be
indigenous, for none are cultivated. I have not seen
gardens, except in this town, during my whole journey;
and here they are only for the orange, fig, and vine, which
are cultivated more for the shade they afford to the seats
* The Anagallis cserulea, Gladiolus communis, Pyrethrum, Astragalus,
Salvia Horminum, Fumaria capreolata, Muscari comosum, Scilla mari-
tima, Muscari botryoides, and Ornithogalum umbellatuni.
f Cistus Fumana.
% Styrax officinale, the Grum Storax.
139
M
embo:
marble
tms porom^
a few little st^
was, fa fc|
and being $
«•. One of |
utanceontah
undantlyafli
witer ipiines «■
r ranarbble. I)
at here recorded
:U is well km
free of the nil
iiorbram
of two hundredn
vhwater spring
rith sufficient id
rms told that thfj:
emnuatthe'fc
in >"apl •
he AmdofHK1
the following iko
ituated at a shot:
of Phoenice Is
ypio from thews
in t boat with il»
round wtii'
inrtrument f
fter a little while-
herdeawd.
the coast, sometimes at the distance of a quarter of a mile
from the shore. The bottom of the sea beyond this deposit
is of marble rock, the foundation of the splendid range of
the Taurus.
Friday, April 6th.—I am detained here by the illness 01
my servant, and am enjoying a rest in this delightful cli-
mate. I find the town is small, but clean, and more agree-
able as a residence than any that I have before seen in
this country. The town stands on a cliff rising sixty or
eighty feet above the sea, which has no beach, but breaks
against the overhanging rocks ; these are apparently formed
of, or incrusted by, a stalactitic deposit of lime. I have
returned from a walk laden with flowers, and I now inflict
upon myself the penalty of ignorance by drawing those with
which I am unacquainted: it is a severe one, for their
varieties are numerous, many of them being hothouse plants
in England*. Among them is a shrub in growth and leaf
exactly like the heath, and standing six or eight feet high,
but with the flower of the cistusf. A common shrub here
is a very pretty tree with a blossom resembling the lemon
tree J. There is a great variety of the iris, the most common
being a luxuriant white one, generally with three very
sweet-scented flowers on one stalk • there are also the
orchis, and beautiful varieties of the chickweed, and of the
garlic, whose silvery flower contrasts elegantly with the
green around. The plants found in this country must be
indigenous, for none are cultivated. I have not seen
gardens, except in this town, during my whole journey;
and here they are only for the orange, fig, and vine, which
are cultivated more for the shade they afford to the seats
* The Anagallis cserulea, Gladiolus communis, Pyrethrum, Astragalus,
Salvia Horminum, Fumaria capreolata, Muscari comosum, Scilla mari-
tima, Muscari botryoides, and Ornithogalum umbellatuni.
f Cistus Fumana.
% Styrax officinale, the Grum Storax.