ALEXANDRIA TO COS. 431 
From the eastern coast of Rhodes, our Captain chap. 
stood over once more towards the coast of .' 
Lycia and the Seven Capes. In the morning of shoitTf 
October the second, we found ourselves in the miw^ 
midst of islands and promontories, placed upon 
the bright expanse, as it were, of a mirror. It 
is quite impossible to afford, by description, 
any ideas of such scenery. The impression 
made upon our minds, who had beheld these 
sights before, was new again. The immensity 
of the objects ; the varied nature of the ter- 
ritory over all the southern shores of Asia 
Minor ; the prodigious effect of light and 
shade, in masses extending for leagues ; the 
sublime effulgence and the ineffable whiteness 
of the snow-clad summits, contrasted with the 
dark chasms on the sides of the mountains ; 
the bold precipices, and the groupes of nume- 
rous islands ; the glorious brightness and the 
intensity of colour diffused over the horizon; 
these, indeed, may be enumerated, but they can- 
not be described. We continued surveying 
them, as if we had then seen them for the first 
time. The Turkish practice of keeping near the 
shore, when land is in sight, enabled us to view 
the whole coast of Lycia and of Caria. As 
we proceeded towards Doris, the eye com- 
manded, in one prospect, the whole of that part 
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