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to make them durable, but their being acquainted with the ufe 
of lime. As a manure it might probably be ufed to great 
advantage. Many fields of barley in this part of the country; 
now the beginning of their harveft. The thermometer here 
fell, at four o’clock in the afternoon, to 6o° : cold and 
chilly. 
Road to Chepta, May 27. On the road to Chepta, the 
rock in general dips to the northward and eaftward, in about 
an angle of iixty degrees. Much of limeftone, and fome veins 
of quartz, and loofe pieces of {parry flint linking fire with 
fteeh 
Several fprings, and one {lightly impregnated with iron. 
In addition to the plants of yefterday, find the Coriandrum 
tefticulatum, Inula montana, and Rhododendum magnum. 
At Chepta met with a few turneps, one maple-tree, worm- 
wood, goofe-grafs (Galium aparine), and many other European 
weeds ; the firft walnut-tree we had yet feen. 
Chepta lies high, and not above fix miles from the moun- 
tain of Lomyla, now covered with fnow. The wind from 
that quarter, S.E. made it cold and chilly, and funk the ther- 
mometer at mid-day to 57 0 . Here are fome fields of wheat 
and barley not yet ripe. 
Road to Pagha, May 29. Soon after leaving Chepta find 
a mineral well, which, on a chemical examination, gave 
marks of a ftrong impregnation from iron. I traced it to its 
fource, where the thermometer, on being immerfed, fell from 
68° to 56°. - ' ' 1 ; 
A little before we reach Pagha, met with fome limeftone, and 
a bed of chalk, which, near the furface, contained a great 
proportion of fand, but fome feet under was much purer. 
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