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ceived that the Arabs occupied the road which it 

 was to take, and the time for its setting off was 

 therefore delayed. 



Kous IS surrounded with fruit-trees, which form 

 very agreeable orchards. These trees are, in- 

 deed, planted without order ; they do not present 

 that symmetrical arrangement which is generally 

 called the work of taste. Here it is the work of 

 nature, and those who love its beautiful simpli- 

 city, experience sensations more delicious, more 

 satisfying than the impression of astonishment pro- 

 duced by the efforts of art, when it attempts to 

 imitate nature. Besides, where can be found a 

 foliage more variegated, a shade more sweetly 

 scented ? Fruits of every kind ripen there, and 

 their boughs intermingle and blend together. 

 Their flowers, which the warmth of this climate 

 renders more odoriferous, exhale a fragrance which 

 they acquire no where else ; and under a tempera- 

 ture constantly heated, the real hot-house of Na- 

 ture, trees the most agreeable, and which in our 

 frozen climates languish in confinement for the 

 greatest part of the year, are loaded uninterrupt- 

 edly vvith blossoms and fruits. The wealthy Poctor 

 conducted me into one of those gardens which be- 

 longed to him. I never found myself before under 

 so delightful a shade. The air was filled with the 



sweetest 



