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tation, (their?is~tbatof the church~yard,) whilethey prove the mighty:powers orthe soU to produce and go beyond it. Twenty very numerousArab encampments were within sight.this day: but numerous as theÏl'droves must have been, there existed no trace of any impression madeby them on the bosom~of·Nature here fun wild.-As the foregoing descriptionof.\veedsprovesa so;mewhat very peculiar in the superficialsoil ofso extensive a tract~ which cannot be J~ss than forty ,miles; so inthatof a second class, where argillaceous tnatter predominates, butwhichyet is of powerful fertility, asis the case of that ofyesterday, the". gradation of productiveness .is marked with the presence of anotherweed, the tbistle, in itsluxuriant growth. This prevails tpere in aU itsvarieties; sorne are.oftheediblekind,and before they growtoo' fibrous,afford a saladby no meatis ungrateful to the traveHer.This countryherea bout, abounds .in springs. The stauding corn, probably in part"owing to therankness of itsgrowth as weU as the humidity of the soiland gradation of climate, is not yet turned entirely: a considerablequantity is yet uncut.29These corn tracts are picturesque in tbeir way,being interspersed with many groups of fig-trees in aH their dusk ofverdure. Four saints' houses were passed in this day's route. They, chosetheir positions weU. In such tracts of this countryas,( different from thela~dsjust descril>ed,are dry, the soil having a stra,titied pudding-stone 0);breceiabasis, (the,difference if n:ot ~material is important,) numeroustnQ.;tatnores (~uch:is the m~me given them by ChristiansheFe)are fouud:the.8panish word isma:Z1no'J'T'{t. They are su.hterraoeou15 ..receptacl~sforcoro, Or granaries, narfOW at the top, so a~ barely to admit the body ofa man to .descend into them, but they widen below into the space of alarge I~oom. They are often to the number of thirty. together, when aconvenient substratum for thaî extent presents. itself~ emsar mentionsthe practice as of time· immemorial.They prove the extel1t of the