SS glaxike 9 s TKAYEtS. 
Christians, who retired or fled from the haunts of society to the 
wilderness of Gargarus, seem to have been fully sensible of the 
effect produced by grand objects, in selecting, as the ‘place of 
their abode, the scenery near the source of the Scamander ; 
where the voice of Nature speaks in her most awful tone: 
where, amidst roaring waters, waving forests, and broken preci¬ 
pices, the mind of man becomes impressed, as by the influence 
of a present deity.* 
The course of the river, after it thus emerges, with very little 
variation, is nearly from east to west. Its source is distant 
from Evgillar about nine miles; or, according to the mode of 
computation in the country, three hours : half this time is spent 
in a gradual ascent from the village. The rock whence it is¬ 
sues consists of micaceous schistus, containing veins of soft mar¬ 
ble. While the artist was employed in making drawings, ill 
€f -ciliated to afford adequate ideas of the grandeur of the 
scenery, I climbed the rocks, with my companions, to examine 
more closely the nature of the chasms whence the torrent issues. 
Having reached these, we found, in their front, a beautiful na¬ 
tural bason, six or eight feet deep, serving as a reservoir for the 
water in the first moments of its emission. It was so clear, that 
the minutest object might be discerned at the bottom. The 
copious overflowing of this reservoir causes the appearance, to 
a spectator below, of -different cascades, falling to the depth of 
about forty feet, but there is only one source. Behind are the 
< hasms whence the water issues. We entered one of these, and 
passed into a cavern. Here the water appeared, rushing with 
great force, beneath the rock, toward the basou on the outside. 
It was the coldest spring we had found in the country; the 
mercury in the thermometer falling, in two minutes, to thirty 
four, according to the scale of Fahrenheit. When placed iu 
the reservoir immediately above the fall, where the water was 
more exposed to the atmosphere, its temperature was three de¬ 
grees higher. The whole rock about the source is covered with 
moss. Close to the bason grew hazel and plane trees; above 
were oaks and pines; all beyond was a naked and fearful pre¬ 
cipice,j 
Prfesentiorem et conspicimus Deum, 
Per invias rupes, fera per juga, - 
Clivosque pr&ruptos, sonantes 
Inter aquas, nemorumque noctem ! 
+ Upon Gargarus we found a beautiful new species, both of crocus . and of anemone, 
.The £rst we have called crocus eanflMtis, and the second anemone formna. They 
may be thus described; 
Crocus foliis lanceolalo linearibus, fion brevioribus slimatibus anther as siibceqvanti - 
bus pro/widissmc nvuUipattitis , radkum tunica,fibroso eo jata ■ corolla laciniis eUmtich. 
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