ing the nature o f thefe materials, that is, the gypfum,
the petrifactions, and the cinnabar, I am of opinion this
laft is of a later date (a).”
Clofe to the Port o f St. Paul there are ruins of a Roman
edifice, and a few years ago a brick oven was difco-
vered, containing feveral coins o f Auguftus, about a
muiket ihot from the fea, which confirms the little it has
te treated on this fide.
j[tf) Don Guillermo Bowles. Page 34.
E E T T E R X V I.
Rbad from Alicant to. the city of■ Valencia:
p HE beautiful objects which crowd in upon the eye
of a traveller, as he moves towards Valencia, are
ihch, and the hand of nature has been every where fo
profufé, that a. writer muff be poffefled of uncommon
abilities to do juffice to io animated a picture, or dè-
fcribe in its proper colours fó enchanting a vale, enriched
with every valuable production. In going from
the city of Alicant towards this fertile, kingdom, the
firft obfervation that occurs is at the pleafant village of
Ibi, where there are numerous plantations o f the garden
almond, grafted.on the wild tree, which from the mildnefs
o f the air produce the beffi almonds in Spain, and will
keep very well for eight or ten years, when the others
fòon grow confiderably rancidi The neighbouring hills
are covered with the kermes oak and the common mat
tick tree, ox lent feus (¿1), the favin, reflharrow, rofemary-
M ‘Mr..Bowles fays, hè knewanapóthècary at Alicant, who uftd to bòil thè leaves of the
LtntiJiUSy and colle&ing the icum which was left to dry,' fold it for male incenfe, which he imagined
to be the fame as.-the olibanum or frankincenfé, imported from the Levant. The Spa-
n&LLentifcus, liowever,. is different.from the true. maftic,tree of the Levant, and.from which
leaved.