34 Voyage of the Novara. 



was discovered a few years since on the eastern side of the 

 rock at a height of only 80 feet, the lower portion of which 



consists of accumulations of sand and recent shells. There 

 have also been found bones and teeth of large herbivorous 

 animals. 



The characteristic vegetation of the mountain is Spanish 

 broom (^Spartium junceuin), the yellow blossom of which 

 strikes the eye pleasingly at a great distance. There is also one 

 species of cactus, and one of the dwarf palm (Opuntia vulgaris, 

 and ChamcBj'ops humilis'), which grows in great abundance, 

 and forms, on the south face of the rock, almost the only 

 vegetation, whilst, on account of difference of temperature, it is 

 altogether absent on the remaining sides. 



Gibraltar has little to attract strangers to settle j bar- 



