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is also all the way to Larissa, is very fine. The 

 distance is just sufficient to allow the continuity 

 of the snow range to be seen over the interme- 

 diate mountains. The barren snow-topped Pin- 

 dus, contrasted with the fine range of well- 

 wooded mountains covered with magnificent fo- 

 rest trees, and these again with the picturesque 

 objects in a rich plain as a foreground, produce, 

 especially towards evening, when the sun begins 

 to sink behind this magnificent range, a most 

 splendid and indescribable effect. 



At Tricala, we ought to have taken fresh horses, 

 but we found we should be subject to some delay 

 and inconvenience in procuring them, because, 

 from its being the spring of the year, all the 

 horses in the neighbourhood were out in the 

 country at work. Finding, therefore, that our old 

 friends that had brought us so well from Janina, 

 were none the worse able to proceed, we made a 

 private agreement with the surrigee to take them 

 on as far as Larissa. 



The horses in this country are extraordinary 

 animals. Here we had ridden them twelve or thir- 

 teen hours for two successive days, and over very 

 rough ground ; they had eaten nothing but grass, 



