DISTRICT OF TROAS. IG9 
On the following' morning, by day -break, the chap. 
sky being" cloudless, we began to ascend ■ 
towards the summit of the mountain. During ti.rsuin^ 
the greatest part of the year, Gargarus, like ^Ir^Lu*. 
JEtna, is characterized by a triple zone ; first, 
a district of cultivated land ; afterwards, an 
assemblage of forests ; and lastly, toward the 
summit, a region of snow and ice. Passing 
through the first on horseback, we ascended by 
the banks of the Scamander. The scenery was 
uncommonly fine ; it resembled the country in 
the neighbourhood of Vietri, upon the Gidph of 
Salerno, where Salvaior Rosa studied and painted 
the savage and uncouth features of Nature, in 
his great and noble style. During the first 
hour, we passed the remains of some small Oratoricsof 
Greek chapels, the oratories of ascetics, whom 
the dark spirit of superstition, in the fourth 
century of the Christian sera, conducted, from 
the duties of civil society, to the wildest and 
most untrodden solitudes. Secluded from 
scenes of war and revolutionary fury, these 
buildings remain nearly as they were left v/hen 
the country became a part of the Turhhk 
empire ; nor would it have been marvellous, if a 
mouldering skeleton, at the foot of a forsaken 
altar, had exhibited the remains of the latest 
of its votaries. One of them, indeed, placed 
above the roaring torrent, in a situation of 
