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considerable source. As we advanced, a more luxuriant
vegetation succeeded, and a delightful mixture of corn,
vineyards, olives, and fig trees, announced to us our ap-
proach to the capital of the isle. After passing a church
seated on an eminence, we entered the bed of a winter
torrent, the only road, or the best the country affords, be-
yond which even mules and asses proceed with difficulty.
The valley here opens between the hills, and near the
town assumes a still more agreeable aspect, where scattered
almond trees and groves of oranges at once afford fruit,
shade, and fragrance, to the gardens of the inhabitants.
On the left we passed the large village of Perachora,
seated on a projection of Stephano bouni.
Before we entered the city, we were met by Signior
Marco Zavo, at whose house we had lodged during our
former visit, and who, with great hospitality, renewed his
invitation. The English vice-consul also, Signior Constan-
tino Zavo, met us in the street, and kindly accommodated
part of our number in his house, adjoining that of his rela-
tion Signior Marco.
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considerable source. As we advanced, a more luxuriant
vegetation succeeded, and a delightful mixture of corn,
vineyards, olives, and fig trees, announced to us our ap-
proach to the capital of the isle. After passing a church
seated on an eminence, we entered the bed of a winter
torrent, the only road, or the best the country affords, be-
yond which even mules and asses proceed with difficulty.
The valley here opens between the hills, and near the
town assumes a still more agreeable aspect, where scattered
almond trees and groves of oranges at once afford fruit,
shade, and fragrance, to the gardens of the inhabitants.
On the left we passed the large village of Perachora,
seated on a projection of Stephano bouni.
Before we entered the city, we were met by Signior
Marco Zavo, at whose house we had lodged during our
former visit, and who, with great hospitality, renewed his
invitation. The English vice-consul also, Signior Constan-
tino Zavo, met us in the street, and kindly accommodated
part of our number in his house, adjoining that of his rela-
tion Signior Marco.
e 2
.-**■
^i-^^^S