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of Ithaca, rocky, but cloathed with a profusion of flowering
shrubs. As we approached the land, the fresh breeze of
the morning was perfumed with their fragrance, and we
distinguished the cistus mixed with the bright yellow bloom
of the sphalactos, a species of cytisus common in the Le-
vant.
As two of the party had, on a former occasion, travelled
over some parts of the country, we lost no time in enquiry,
but proceeded directly toward a beautiful semicircular
precipice, now known by the name of Korax, or Koraka
Petra, and situated near the southern extremity of the isle.
In this season of the year, the sun had not yet destroyed
that verdure which seldom remains after the month of
April in the Mediterranean islands, and we sate down to
breakfast under a shade of myrtle, mastic, and juniper.
Before us lay the pretty islet of Parapegada, so called from
its vicinity to the beautiful fountain which trickles from
the base of the precipices of Korax. The sea was uncom-
monly clear, and the prospect was diversified by the nu-
merous rocks of the Echinades, beyond which the Acarna-
nian mountains terminated the scene. Having finished
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of Ithaca, rocky, but cloathed with a profusion of flowering
shrubs. As we approached the land, the fresh breeze of
the morning was perfumed with their fragrance, and we
distinguished the cistus mixed with the bright yellow bloom
of the sphalactos, a species of cytisus common in the Le-
vant.
As two of the party had, on a former occasion, travelled
over some parts of the country, we lost no time in enquiry,
but proceeded directly toward a beautiful semicircular
precipice, now known by the name of Korax, or Koraka
Petra, and situated near the southern extremity of the isle.
In this season of the year, the sun had not yet destroyed
that verdure which seldom remains after the month of
April in the Mediterranean islands, and we sate down to
breakfast under a shade of myrtle, mastic, and juniper.
Before us lay the pretty islet of Parapegada, so called from
its vicinity to the beautiful fountain which trickles from
the base of the precipices of Korax. The sea was uncom-
monly clear, and the prospect was diversified by the nu-
merous rocks of the Echinades, beyond which the Acarna-
nian mountains terminated the scene. Having finished