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SORTS OF BREAD. 



milies. Of the pancake or unleavened kind, the 

 maize, or Indian wheat, makes the sweetest, and 

 is always the thickest, — but the wheaten, or 

 barley cake seldom exceeds the thickness of card- 

 board or chamois leather, and is usually served up 

 like a roll of paper. Of the two, the former is 

 preferable ; the latter is the most unpalatable 

 trash ever honoured as the staff of life, its flavour 

 partaking of chopped straw and saw-dust. When 

 no more weighty circumstance determined our 

 halting-place for the night, the quality of the 

 bread, which varied at every village, became a 

 matter of consideration. 



Our horses being fatigued from the journey of 

 yesterday, we started for Limyra on foot, under 

 the guidance of our host, the baker. To avoid 

 the marshes and bogs in the plain, we are 

 obliged to make a considerable detour to reach 

 the ruins, first following up the course of the 

 Phineka Tchy at the foot of the mountain, and 

 crossing it by a wooden bridge, about an hour 

 above the scala. We then passed through the 

 village, of Alajah-dagh, surrounded by gardens 

 and groves of plane-trees. We shortly after- 

 wards passed Demergee Keui, or the Chingu- 

 nee blacksmith's village, and then the Arycandus 



