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repose. I therefore arcse at two o’clock, and, as the horses
soon efterwards appeared, we set off for Patras. The moon
was bright and the air cool, and we proceeded along a path
close to the gulf; passed some shepherds’ huts in which the
lights were burning, and the dogs gave note of watchfulness.
As daylight appeared, I looked anxiously to the coast for
the spectacle of a sunrise behind the mountains of Roumelia.
The first rays lighted vp the summits of Parnassus and the
other lofty mountains, whose snowy peaks were tinged with
rosy hues. By degrees the sky assumed a dark dull red
aspect, above the eastern range of hills; this shade gradually
 grew more lurid, until little by little the horizon, from
a sombre red, assumed a dazzling appearance of fiery brightness,
 and shortly afterwards the sun flamed above the mountainons
 outline over the gulf, bills, and valleys around us.
The path sll the way lay through a thicket of shrubs of a
thousand kinds, some evergreen, others aromatic, and the
whole wearing the appearance of a pleasure-ground in
England. The flowers, too, were fragrant, and the whole
scene was full of luxuriant richness and beauty.
“We stopped at a hut at nine o’clock to breakfast, where
we found a poor mud cottage, containing a few coarse
articles of use for sale, as well as some bread snd cheese of
a very uninviting quality. I saw Lepanto on the opposite
side of the gzlf, and soon afterwards the Castles of Patras
and Roumelia, which guard the entrance of the Gulf of
Lepanto. Af half-past twelve o'clock we entered Patras
and went str “*— - 45 the “'onsul’s house, to learn the
time when the st: id sil T washog, dressed, and
dined, and "=r? went on board the
Hermes stear . +. seus which arrived from Corfu.
We set sail a. ...s ociock In the evening, at ten, we
called off Zante fur letters, and then proceeded with favour
able breezes for Malta?

1837.

Ar, 33.