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the water's edge. Trees bending with fruit — chap. 
the citron, the orange, the lemon, the mulberry, 
and the Lentisais or Mastic-tree — are seen 
" The olive-tree flourishes in a chalky soil. In summer, a hollow is 
dug round the tree, to receive water • the fruit is beaten off with long 
sticks, and not gathered. The olive-presses, which I saw, consist of a 
circular basin, of twelve feet in diameter ; and from the centre rises a tall 
strong piece of wood, to which a large stone, like a mill-stone, is attached. 
A horse goes round the basin, and, as he moves, the perpendicular piece of 
wood receives a rotatory motion; this is communicated to the stone. 
" Locusts are called by tlie Greeks x.ara.oa, (a curse). They had laid 
waste the country about Adramyttium and Pergamus. Proceeding in 
a straight line, and stopped by no impediment, they devoured every kind 
of vegetation : all means used to destroy them were fruitless ; if some part 
were killed by smoke and fire, kindled expressly, still, however, multitudes 
escape. In July, tlie Archipelago was covered for some distance with 
swarms, which the wind had driven into the sea. They were larger than 
grasshoppers, with legs and body of a yellow colour: their wings were 
brown, and spotted. The Turks have not learned to eat them; but with 
the Arabs, the locust is boiled or roasted, and eaten with salt. Europeans 
are surprised at this ; as the Arabs are, when they hear that we eat crabs, 
oysters, and lobsters. 
" The storks, while I was in the Troad, were building their nests on the 
houses at Bournabashi. The veneration paid to these birds by the Maho- 
metans is well known. The Thessalians (says Plutarch, de Iside et 
Osiride) esteem tliem, because they destroyed serpents. The noise made 
by the upper and under parts of their bill (' crepitante ciconia rostro' 
Ovid.) is well compared, by Shaw, to that of a pair of castanets. 
" On the great roads near Smyrna, which lead to the interior, are to be 
met frequent caravans of camels ; these are preceded by an ass ; and 
round their necks are strings of beads, with a bell. I mention this, 
because the same ornament is seen on the camels sculptured at Persepolis. 
Tlie camel of the northern part of Asiatic Turkey is a stronger animal 
than that of the south : the latter carries not more than five hundred 
pounds weight; but the former from eight to nine hundred. Near 
Moolah I met a caravan laden with iron ore." IFalpole's MS. Journal. 
