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course of the territory opposite i^Aoc/e^; although chap. 
the features of Nature do not here present so v .y. / 
gigantic an appearance as to the eastward of 
the Seven Capes. The wind afterwards becoming 
favourable for Rhodes, we stood for the town ; 
and coming close to it, fired a gun, as a 
signal for a boat to put off to the ship. When 
the boat arrived, we represented to the Captain 
the necessity of our landing with the despatches 
from the Capudan Pasha, which he had charged 
us to deliver with our own hands to the Go- 
vernor; but the wary old Turk, apprehending 
at least the possibility of its being an order for 
his own execution ^ delivered the despatches 
appears as a slieet of water, or lake, surrouiuled by lofty niouutains, 
wooded to the very summit; but iiLPe and there divided by deep impe- 
netrable valleys, thick with shrubs of every description ; to which 
.a clear, yet constant stream, imparts frt'hness and verdure. Some- 
times one heiglit is separated from another by a lar^e extensive plain, 
divided into fields, and covered with an abundance of cattle: add to 
these, the little town of Marmmice, with its mosque and minaret, the 
shipping at anchor, the boats passinij to and fro, the tents on different 
parts of the shore, and the variety of objects, will be found to com- 
pose a picture that can never be surpassed. On the vhifh instant, my 
brother officers and myself were landed, and encamped with a party of 
two hundred artificers, for the purpose of making /ascines, and pre- 
paring our particular branch of the service for the ensuing campaign. 
Would you believe that most of ourjascines are of the most beautiful 
myrtle; and that, probably, in a few weeks, we shall be plantlng 
OUR CANNON IN MYRTLE BATTERIES BEFORE ALEXANDRIA.'" Colotiel 
Squire's MS. Correspondence. 
(3) The grandees of Turkey are sometimes sent to Rhodes, when it 
is necessary to get rid of them, with an order to the Governor for their 
own execution. 
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