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nothing now remains excepting a few broken CHAP. 
pieces of marble." The person who gave us . - T - ^ 
this information seemed to be possessed of 
more intelligence than it is usual to find among 
the Greeks : we therefore profited by his instruc- 
tions, and set out for Ligurid. 
The temperature on shore, this day at noon, 
was the same as it had been upon the preceding 
day in the middle of the gulph ; that is to say, 
68 of Fahrenheit. It was four o'clock p. M. 
before we left Epiada. We noticed here a very 
remarkable mineral of a jet black colour, which 
at first sight seemed to be coal, but, upon further 
examination, it rather resembled asphahum. It 
was very soft ; and, in places where water had 
passed over it, the surface was polished. The 
specimens being lost, this is all the description 
of it we can now give. Our journey from 
Epiada towards the interior of Epidauria led us 
over mountains, and through the most delightful 
valleys imaginable. In those valleys we found 
the Arbutus Andrachne, with some other species Arbutus 
. . Andrachne. 
oi the same genus nourishing in the greatest 
exuberance, covered with flowers and fruit. 
The fruit, in every thing but flavour and smell, 
resembled large hautbois strawberries: the 
