from the remains, belonging to the fortrefs of Munych'ia. By ;
the fea-fide is a large fragment of a marble column. The rock*
was incfufted with fait, white;and p p c^ |p^ e ||y m article p f
commerce, and, with the wood, rented of the public. O w .
men-made a tent of the fail and oars to fhelter us from, the ,fun,j
andacollefted the low fhrubs and arid herbage to drefsu pur.
provifions,,
. W e? waitedfiir.,% 'wind until the foliow^g day, whea;w:e4
faifediivthree hoafS: after «non* fleering toward the weft end of,
jiEgina. We were becaimed about mid-way, and roW|^ ,}?y,a
rock or iflet, whiph the mariners fay is haunted ; ipurmurings
and frightful yoicej.being | heard on it;, pcrbapsthe bating of;
the-Waves and the cry of amphibious animals, fuchas the Phoca3t
or dea^cal^s,/ whleh^^ca^naliy^ ^pair to land; and nightly
gbblinsill-treatihg thofe whoare forced to tarry in bad weather,
I W e went on fhore on an iflet between iEgina an4 ;^aMghSa'
where < we found plenty, of fea-chefnuts. The rock waS 'baieJ*'
except ar; few-fhrubs and: ftunted trees, but abounded.«?! locnfts.
c¥fftiMfallyisifi^ as: w c moved through the parched,herbage
and fetfling again after a fhort flight. The amazing fwarmseqf
thefe infers fee» in countries not commonly infefted with them,
it is likely, are formed when provifions are deatity at homes
hunger forcing them to affemb|<p to be wafted by the wind to
regions of a hiolfter fempftatuf^, #hlfe-Vegetables continue to
flourifli. Among the buflies I difcovered an irife<ft o f a fpeocs
left common, refembling the tendril o f a vine. . It .Was moving;
the colour a-lively'green. Naturalifts have named M walking
fiic k \ This, and- almoft every rock, has'on 'it a ruinous
church. The fun, which was now fettirig behind the .pic-
turt%tte ifl'ahds-and riiountain%-> coloured; heaven and ‘4 * th
with a 'r ich variety of exquifite tints. Our crew refted after
their labour in the boat, made faft to the fhore, on which we
* See EJwards,:f>l. 288, c, 78, part 2d.
lay
T R A V E L S m G R E E C E .
lay among cedar-trees and thickets of maftic. In the night a
great dew fell.
E a r l y in the morning we had a favourable breeze, o f
fhort duration. We had purpofed
iEgina, but on opening the port faw in it a large Sand or veffel
at Anchor. A Barbary cruifer had lately appeared off jnmum
Several in the boat were feized with panic fear, and called out
to the captain to fteer to the fhore, which was at a little distance
We determined, however, to row on, when the hanging
out o f a piece of linen to dry fpread new terror, fome mfift-
ing it was a fignal for us to go on board. We paffed. a rock
named W n e , and putting into a bay o f iEgina ^Bed Perthica
dined by a well of cold water, under a thick , and wide-fpread-
ing fig-tree, beneath which we would have flept at noon, but
our mariners affirmed, the fhade was bad, that we fhould rife
heavy and' with the head-ach. Our water-cafks were earned
to be filled at a better fpring near a mile diftant by a metochi
or farm, where we procured green almonds, and were informed
that the veffel, which had caufed our confternation, was from
Crete, manned with Turks, waiting to load with corn. The
wind being contrary, we paffed the night on the rocks near our
boat.
C H A P. XLIX.
Sail from Mgina — th e ijland and town o/Poro— p e
. . . Way to Cahurea— O f the city— th e remain, goatherd.
IN the morning we fc* fail from-%ina for Poro, a finali
«land near the coaft of the Morea, diftant about feteen miles.
The fair gdeibon failed, and the land-breeze was heard comtng
from the peninfula of Methana,/making the water foam betore
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