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THE THEATRE. 



thrashed on the 22nd of July,— the stadium 

 through which I passed being a corn-field 

 as well as that in which I bivouacked. I was 

 wonderfully well received by these mountaineers, 

 who had never seen but one Frank before, and 

 him a few months ago, only for a night. ' He 

 was a man with a beard,' they said, ' who 

 did nothing but pick up stones, throw some 

 down again, and put others into his pocket.' 

 It was quite clear who my friend was.* 



" I measured the theatre : it was three hundred 

 and ninety feet wide. I then thought it as well to 

 go and begin a sketch of the first view that 

 struck me; but from the extremely intricate 

 character of my abominable snails with their 

 layers of conglomerated blocks, from the difficult 

 perspective of the theatre from the spot where I 

 saw it, as well as the indescribable beauty of 

 the range of mountains running to the north- 

 east, which bounded the sketch, I did not finish 

 my outline till nearly four o'clock. I sent the 



* The Frank alluded to was, doubtless, Professor Schon- 

 brun, who, when at Rhodes, after Mr. Daniell's departure, 

 told us that he had visited the Selge of Sir C. Fellows, and 

 proved it to be Cremna ; and that he had found another large 

 city, which he believed to be the true Selge. This we com- 

 municated by letter to Mr. Daniell when he was at Adalia. 



