CHAP, 
VIII. 
Rhodes. 
278 RHODES. 
Koynucky — Turhdent State of the Country — Conduct 
of the Natives upon the Coast — New -discovered Plants — 
Isle of Ahercromhie. 
JlVhodes is a truly delightful spot : the air of 
the place is healthy ; and its gardens are filled 
with delicious fruit. Here, as in Cos, every 
gale is scented with the most powerful fra- 
grance, which is wafted from groves of orange 
and citron trees. Numberless aromatic herbs 
exhale at the same time such profuse odour, that 
the whole atmosphere seems to be impregnated 
with a spicy perfume. 
Climate. 
The present inhabitants of the island confirm 
the antient history of its climate; maintaining, 
that hardly a day passes, throughout the year, 
in which the sun is not visible. Pagan writers 
describe it as so peculiarly favoured, that 
Jupiter is fabled to have poured down upon it 
a golden shower. The winds are liable to little 
variation : they are north, or north-west, during 
almost every month, but these winds blow with 
great violence. From the number of the appel- 
lations which it bore at different periods, Rhodes 
might have at last received the name of the 
[wly-onomous island'. Its antiquities are too 
(1) Ophiusa, from the number of its serpents; Stadia, or Desert; 
Telrhinis, Corj/mbia, Trinacria, Mthreea, from its cloudless sky; Asteria, 
because, 
