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ftocked with olive trees. Here and there are to be 

 feen corn-fields ; on the heights, which, though fome- 

 what broad, are not very fteep. The fummits of the 

 mountains are either bare rocks, or are overgrown with 

 trees of no value ; namely low and ftunted pinaflers 

 and fundry kinds of oaks, intermixed with fhrubs and 

 little bufhes, juniper, rofemary and cyflus. 



That part which lies beyond the Gapaud is lefs cul- 

 tivated, but richly planted with olive-trees ; and a 

 confiderable portion of this plain is comprehended in 

 the exteniive falt-mines, of which I mail take notice 

 afterwards, and the adjacent morafies. 



The whole region is in general very agreeable, and 

 during the winter particularly health} 7 . Hence it is 

 that a great number of valetudinary perfons come hi- 

 ther annually from other countries. For thole who 

 are flrong in their feet, there are very pleafant walks ; 

 but in bright weather they feel a want of made. A 

 foreigner that chufes to make fome flay here, and is 

 accuftomed to butter and milk, will do well to bring 

 with him a cow and a good flock of butter ; for butter 

 is not at all to be had, and there is no other milk but 

 that of goats. Cows are extremely rare, as well as 

 horfes. The only cattle they have are affes and goats. In 

 a very remote place I once faw a few oxen grazing in a 

 meadow. Befkle the beautiful fpots, and the diver- 

 lified profpecls that render thefe walks fo pleafant, I 

 found a particular pleafure in meeting with a great va- 

 riety of trees and vegetables, which in England we 

 are obliged to keep in hot-houfes. By the roads, and 

 in general where there are any eminences, we chiefly 

 meet with the following fhrubs : the pomegranate- 

 tree, the maflic [lentifcusj, the large-leaved myrtle, 



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