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ance of the weather. This did not induce us 

 to delay, and we pushed on in spite of the storm 

 over the mountain pass, nearly seven thousand 

 feet above the level of the sea, and covered in 

 places by snow. This pass is very picturesque, 

 and its summit would have furnished a good 

 botanical station ; but the weather was pitiless, 

 and destroyed all the pleasure of the journey. 



In the evening we reached Eski Hissar, where 

 good lodgings and civil people made up for the 

 miserable plight in which we arrived. 



