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aind they are visible, at least, one third part of chap. 
the whole distance, from the Jlsiatic to the ^ • 
African Continent. From Rhodes they are 
distinctly seen, although that island be rarely 
discerned from the mouth of the Gulph, even 
in the clearest weather. Of this Gulph it is not 
possible to obtain correct ideas, even from the 
best maps, as it is falsely delineated in all that 
have yet been published. It inclines so much 
towards the south, after passing the isles which 
obstruct the entrance, that ships may lie as in 
a basin. Its extremity is quite land-locked ; 
although no such notion can be formed of 
it, from the appearance it makes, either in 
D'AnviUes Atlas, or in any more recent publi- 
cation. The air of this Gulph, especially in 
summer, is pestiferous; a complete mal-aria^ MaUAria. 
prevails over every part of it. Sir Sidney Smith, 
being here with the Tigre, assured us that 
within the lapse of one week from the time of 
his arrival, he had not less than one hundred of 
the crew upon the sick list. The author soon 
(2) The name generally given, in the Mediterranean, to those 
mephitic exhalations of carluretled hydrogen, prevalent during the 
summer months, where land has not been properly drained. The 
mouths of all rivers are thus infested : also, all cotton and rice grounds ; 
places called Lagunes, where salt is made ; all the plains of Baotiut 
Thessaly, and Macedonia, particularly those of Zeitun, the anlient 
Lamia, and Tkessalonica; the great Marsh of B^rotia; all the northern 
and western coasts of the Morea; and the whole coast of Romelia, 
opposite Corcyra, now Corfu. 
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