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HermoD, Nam, Tabor, and the Lake of Tiberias were view in 

 displayed before them. The Mountains of Moab, Gilead, Palestine - 

 and Hauran, and the Nazareth Hills were conspicuous. 

 They gazed upon Cana, Safed, and Acre, and the coast 

 north almost to Tyre. . Before them were stretched 

 the plains of Zebulon, Esdraelon, and Sharon ; the hills 

 of Samaria and the coast south to Jaffa. 



They descended by the spring whence water was 

 brought for sacrifice, to the place where the prophets of 

 Baal were slain, and so home by Kishon to the foot of 

 Carmel. Not unnoticed by the way were the gall-oaks, 

 storax, and the laurels. 



On Nov. 10 they anchored at Malta, arriving in four End of the 

 days' time at Marseilles. The journey being thus J l 

 happily accomplished, need we wonder that even 

 Hanbury, reticent in expression and measured in his 

 admiration, sometimes drew a contrast between the 

 attractions of foreign travel and the more sober realities 

 of "a shop in Lombard Street." [Begun Sept. 15, 

 1860. Ended Nov. 14, I860.] 



A pleasant memory reaches us from Florence. Han- Florence. 

 bury once paid a visit to his good friend Mr. Henry 

 Groves. The object of the Italian visit was to obtain in- 

 formation about manna, and also to see with his own 

 eyes the various irides that grew in the neighbourhood. 

 He stayed four or five days, and examined the drug 

 stores of the city. Two miles distant, in the outskirts, 

 grow the irides, in the grounds of the Certosa Monastery, 

 and thither went the two companions to consider the 

 lilies of the field. They were enabled to see the three 

 species that yield the orris root, and Hanbury took speci- On is Root, 

 mens of the roots, and afterwards figured and coloured 

 them at the house. Another day he called on Professor 



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