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34 TRAVELS TO THE EAST. 
nearer view they are found to conffll of a dark 
brown, coarfe, loofe flate, compofed of thin i Hates, 
and which may eafily be broke by the fingers, 
I found hills of flate at the road fide, with breaches 
cut through them to make paffages for travellers. 
The other hills of Natolia confided of Lime-ftone, 
which was whitilh, and of a coarfe gram : in thele 
I likewife faw fome large breaches; but an innu- 
merable quantity of loofe Hones of this kind covered 
both hills and roads. Nor ^re there wanting 
loofe Hones of Quartz, Spart, reddilh Lime-Hone, 
Sand-Hone, Span mixt with Quartz; yet unmixed 
Quartz was fomewhat fcarce, and always in lingle 
meces. Such mountains as we moHly have in the 
North, are not to be feen here. Mould makes the 
upper furface of all hills, in which grow various 
plants but none fo common as Arbutus Andrachn 
This bufli covers the hill in every place, and grows 
infuch quantities, that I have never feen any plain 
fo covered with Juniper-bufttes in Sweden. The 
latter were fo fcarce, that I fcarce faw ten on the 
whole road. The Spanilh Pine (Pmus Picea) was 
fomewhat more common, and occupied the molt barrel 
places; but mod of thefe trees were young. AH 
the hills lay uncultivated, a fign of a countrV 
badly till’d. If Natolia was well inhabited, good 
hufoandmen would certainly make the hills tu 
out to fome account. Here might be plante 
good vineyards of the fine vines that grow about 
Smyrna. Here a number of flreep might feed 
places that agree well with them, where the ftieeP 
Fefcue grafs (Fefiuca ovina) grows fufficient ) 
Goats might feed here to a much greater numbe 
than are now found here, there being plenty o 
food for them. And if all other places, which her 
lie uncultivated, were to be turned into corn lan 
