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in height. Near it a beautiful purple Cyclamen 

 was blossoming in profusion among the bushes, and 

 on the serpentine beyond Hoozoomlee we gather- 

 ed many interesting and peculiar plants. We 

 descended to the plain of Makri by a road 

 which led down the mountains by the side of a 

 rivulet, on the banks of which many land-crabs 

 were seen. There are no ruins between Hoozoom- 

 lee and Makri, but in the centre of the plain of 

 Makri there is a burial ground, where some 

 large inscribed blocks, apparently the remains 

 of a building which stood on the spot, have the 

 name " Cadyanda" included in their inscriptions. 



