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crevices of calcareous, stony and ferruginous coloured earth, 
- lying at the foot of a wall of rocks, by which the uniform 
slope of the Sierra is intersected for half a league ; it trickles 
onward between banks, shaded with noble Poplars, and 
where rustic benches have been placed for the public accom- 
modation. I feel quite incompetent to describe the beauty of 
the view which I beheld that evening at sunset. A little 
below was the village encircled with orange-groves, farther 
off the forests of olive, then the whole hollow of the vale and 
Opposite me, in the distance, the imposing and massive Sier- 
ra de la Nieve, already bathed in the clear twilight peculiar to 
à southern sky. 
My friend Hoenselaer had strongly urged me to climb the 
Sierra de Mijas, where he promised me a rich harvest, spite 
of its apparent sterility. To reach this mountain, I retraced 
a part of the Malaga road, and quitting it to the left hand, 
soon reached a beautiful nascimiento, whose abundant stream 
turned several mills. The argillaceous soil around the 
Spring was decked with those delicate Helianthemums, of 
which the blossoms only expand at the earliest morning hour 
and drop away as soon as the sun is fairly risen; these were 
H. Niloticum, intermedium, salicifolium and Ægyptiacum, 
growing along with Micropus supinus, M. bombacynus and 
Evax pygmea. On arriving at the foot of the wall of rock, 
. Mentioned above, I was delighted to find a vast number of 
: lovely plants that I have never seen before, flourishing 
beautifully in this moist spot, with a north exposure. There 
were Herniaria polygonoides, the fragile and delicate Linaria 
villosa, its leaves covered with a gummy and fragrant exuda- 
.. tion, and then came Sazifraga globulifera and Campanula ve- 
lutina, gracing the angular and rough fractures of the stones 
With tufts of white and blue blossoms. Wherever the rock 
formed hollows and caverns, might be seen enormous tufts of 
| ia corymbosa, a plant which seems to shun the outward 
air and of which the peduncles may be observed lengthening 
z "And stretching in every direction after the flowers are past, 
.. Seeking to deposit its seeds in the fissures. I also gathered there 
