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BEAUTIFUL SEQUESTERED GLEN.
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Another plant, which has been common for ages in
most parts of Europe, was once peculiar to this island.
It is generally known that the quince-tree derived its
Greek name from the Cretan Cydonia, in the district
of which city it was indigenous, and whence it was
transported into other countries29.
A few paces below the mouth of the cavern is a
small church cut out of the solid rock : near it are the
former abodes of the monks. The bridge thrown across
the ravine is spoken of, by Pococke and Sonnini, as fifty
feet high. I observe an opening in it, leading into a
solitary cell, which is said to have been used by the
monks as a place of imprisonment and punishment for any
sinning member of their society. On the opposite side
of the ravine, from which the view was taken, are ruins
of several solitary huts, supposed to have been used as
hermitages, until the church and monastery of Katholikd
were abandoned. This wild and sequestered spot is very
near the head of the valley, and is not above a thousand
paces from the sea. Many Greek monasteries are pic-
turesque and beautiful objects ; but I can recal to my
recollection no place so well suited for those, who may
have desired " remote from man with God to pass their
days,-" as this glen, with its
Steep and lofty cliff's,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion.
29 Pliny, N. H. xv. 11. " His proxima amplitudine mala, quae vocamus
cotonea, et Graeci cydonia, ex Creta insula advecta." Nicander, Alex.
234. ToVe pXoavpolo Kvdwuoi, neivo <\)Vtov Kpt;Ti/6ey. meursius, Creta,
p. 107- Tzschucke, on Pomponius Mela, Vol. in. Part n. p. 818. See
also Julius Pollux, vi. 47. and Hesychius, both mentioned by Wyt-
tenbach, on Plutarch, Praecept. Conjug. p. 138. d. The fruit was called
Ko&vjxa\ov in the ancient Cretan dialect: Hersion, in Athenaeus, hi.
p. 81. f. and Hesychius, under the word.
BEAUTIFUL SEQUESTERED GLEN.
27
Another plant, which has been common for ages in
most parts of Europe, was once peculiar to this island.
It is generally known that the quince-tree derived its
Greek name from the Cretan Cydonia, in the district
of which city it was indigenous, and whence it was
transported into other countries29.
A few paces below the mouth of the cavern is a
small church cut out of the solid rock : near it are the
former abodes of the monks. The bridge thrown across
the ravine is spoken of, by Pococke and Sonnini, as fifty
feet high. I observe an opening in it, leading into a
solitary cell, which is said to have been used by the
monks as a place of imprisonment and punishment for any
sinning member of their society. On the opposite side
of the ravine, from which the view was taken, are ruins
of several solitary huts, supposed to have been used as
hermitages, until the church and monastery of Katholikd
were abandoned. This wild and sequestered spot is very
near the head of the valley, and is not above a thousand
paces from the sea. Many Greek monasteries are pic-
turesque and beautiful objects ; but I can recal to my
recollection no place so well suited for those, who may
have desired " remote from man with God to pass their
days,-" as this glen, with its
Steep and lofty cliff's,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion.
29 Pliny, N. H. xv. 11. " His proxima amplitudine mala, quae vocamus
cotonea, et Graeci cydonia, ex Creta insula advecta." Nicander, Alex.
234. ToVe pXoavpolo Kvdwuoi, neivo <\)Vtov Kpt;Ti/6ey. meursius, Creta,
p. 107- Tzschucke, on Pomponius Mela, Vol. in. Part n. p. 818. See
also Julius Pollux, vi. 47. and Hesychius, both mentioned by Wyt-
tenbach, on Plutarch, Praecept. Conjug. p. 138. d. The fruit was called
Ko&vjxa\ov in the ancient Cretan dialect: Hersion, in Athenaeus, hi.
p. 81. f. and Hesychius, under the word.