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■met with the remains of a town formerly built 
here. Round thefe the fields were in tillage, from 
Whence they were carrying home the barley, which 
in this country ripens about this time. lo thefe 
"uins belong the large mounts that are feen here, 
over-grown with grafs, which are laid to be artifi- 
cially made, for the better building the town. We 
afterwards came to a field, about three miles wide, 
Which bears every year a quantity of good cotton, 
aad had now been lately fown, as this was the pro- 
per time. We travelled by a village called Rama, 
^habited by Chriftians. On the other fide of it 
l he country conlified of fmall hills, or rather rifing 
STounds, covered with plants, and fine vales between 
them. At the end of this field, the country round 
lls confifted of the fineft groves of the eaftern Oak 
(Quercus cocci f era) whole lly, called Tenthredo, had 
made its hard gaul, in which lay its caterpillar, with 
mhers dried up, which the infers had already quitted. 
1 he country here was like our Eaft Gothia. h rom 
l hefe groves we came into the fine plains of Zebu- 
W, above three miles long and three-quarters broad, 
yet quite uninhabited, but not uncultivated, as the 
§ r eateft part of it is planted with cotton. We tra- 
Ve lled directly acrofs it, and on entering it we met 
With one of the wells of the Ifraelites, deftroyed, 
; in d at the end a fine grove of Oak, in whicli were 
*‘f°fome Beech trees (Fagus fylvatica); here we 
*° u nd fmall hills and vales, which we followed to 
' j l furi, a village inhabited by Greeks. In this 
1 ’lace the monks, who were with me, alighted, to 
P°nour the ruins of an old deftroyed church, which 
ls /aid to have been built in memory of the mother 
/ St. Anne and St. Mary, who are reported to have 
."Welt here. The inhabitants breed a great number 
01 bees, to their cQnfiderable advantage, and with 
little 
