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to morasses ; the very air over thee is become heavy 

 and unwholesome, and the chilling ague drives man 

 from thine habitation : in thy latter end, as in thy 

 prosperity, one common fate attends thee with the 

 mighty Babylon." Such was the strain in which a 

 writer in the eighteenth century spoke; and the 

 admirer of Roman glory will have now even still 

 greater cause for lament, scarcely an unbroken 

 Roman stone is now left on the banks of the Guada- 

 renque. The modern farm house called El Roccido 

 will denote the spot, when other traces of it are lost. 

 The neighbouring hills are comparatively barren, 

 scarcely a tree is to be found on them. Among 

 smaller plants found here are various species of Dau- 

 cus, Centaurea acaulis, Kentrophyllum arborescens, 

 Cynara horrida, Scolymus hispanicus, Pulicaria dy- 

 senterica, P. arabica, Thymus hirtus, and T. vulgaris. 

 Although it cannot be expected that the writer 

 should have exhausted the botanical riches of the 

 neighbourhood of Gibraltar, it is to be hoped he 

 has given as faithful an account of it as opportunities 

 have permitted him. After examining the Carteian 

 hills, the traveller, on his return to Gibraltar, will 

 pass through a small village called the Orange-grove, 

 though there are now but few orange trees, and vege- 

 tation of all kinds is scanty and impoverished, from 

 neglect, and the natural disadvantages of a sandy 

 soil. Leaving the Orange-grove, a few miles of sandy 

 mounds are passed, till the Spanish lines are again 

 entered ; here the tourist will have an opportunity of 

 seeing the ruins of Fort St. Philip, which was blown 



