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SOUTH OF LYDIA.
more powerfully sweet than the orange blossom of Sicily;
the fruit is reddish and like a small date; it is called
gegefer#. The trees are neglected here by man alone, the
birds and insects enjoying them undisturbed. I have seen
several woodpeckers, and a small nut-boring bird, the nut-
hatch.
The entomologist would here find a wide field for study.
I thought England in my younger da}As a rich and beautiful
one, but here the insects, like man," assume a far more gay
costume. There are many gaily-coloured species of the
blossom-eating tribe of soft-winged beetles,—some in form
like the diamond-beetle, though not so brilliant. A large
species of the Gryllus tribe seems to ape the birds, flying
on every side from tree to tree, and chirping with a shrill
notef. The butterflies are becoming very numerous, and
each day shows some new variety; the beautiful Panorpa
coa, with its long balancing wings, tempted me to its de-
struction.
The mulberry-trees which were under cultivation around
the village of Chanly bespoke its Greek inhabitants. There
is another village bearing the same name, but wholly of
Turks, about four miles distant, whose inhabitants are now
fast falling before the plague. Chanly was in quarantine;
but knowing that we did not come from an infected place,
the people were not very strict, and furnished us with
horses, with which we proceeded along the bay, to a spot
a few miles beyond Scala JNuova, where we pitched our
tent. At this town many victims are daily carried off by
the plague, and this prevented my being able to procure
post-horses. On approaching the city I skirted its walls, and
here, as with most Turkish towns, the favourable impression
* Elseagnus angustifolia.
t Doubtless the TerTi| or Cicada, so well known from the mention
of it by Homer, Anacreon, and Virgil, and so much the object of favour
among the Athenians.
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SOUTH OF LYDIA.
more powerfully sweet than the orange blossom of Sicily;
the fruit is reddish and like a small date; it is called
gegefer#. The trees are neglected here by man alone, the
birds and insects enjoying them undisturbed. I have seen
several woodpeckers, and a small nut-boring bird, the nut-
hatch.
The entomologist would here find a wide field for study.
I thought England in my younger da}As a rich and beautiful
one, but here the insects, like man," assume a far more gay
costume. There are many gaily-coloured species of the
blossom-eating tribe of soft-winged beetles,—some in form
like the diamond-beetle, though not so brilliant. A large
species of the Gryllus tribe seems to ape the birds, flying
on every side from tree to tree, and chirping with a shrill
notef. The butterflies are becoming very numerous, and
each day shows some new variety; the beautiful Panorpa
coa, with its long balancing wings, tempted me to its de-
struction.
The mulberry-trees which were under cultivation around
the village of Chanly bespoke its Greek inhabitants. There
is another village bearing the same name, but wholly of
Turks, about four miles distant, whose inhabitants are now
fast falling before the plague. Chanly was in quarantine;
but knowing that we did not come from an infected place,
the people were not very strict, and furnished us with
horses, with which we proceeded along the bay, to a spot
a few miles beyond Scala JNuova, where we pitched our
tent. At this town many victims are daily carried off by
the plague, and this prevented my being able to procure
post-horses. On approaching the city I skirted its walls, and
here, as with most Turkish towns, the favourable impression
* Elseagnus angustifolia.
t Doubtless the TerTi| or Cicada, so well known from the mention
of it by Homer, Anacreon, and Virgil, and so much the object of favour
among the Athenians.
■
B0
kfe*
urn
■
d ■ i
>. ;•. :■• :
i
:•'. kk uk
■-'--y *:
Wliiifcega