A Journal Written During An Excursion in Asia Minor
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With my map I can study the whole line of coast of the bay. The town around me is seen inclosed within a double wall; but even here, in the centre, it has almost the appearance of houses in pleasure-grounds rather than of a town; perhaps the greater part is built without the walls. Scarcely a ship rides in the ancient harbour, a few boats occupying a port which has in early ages contained its fleet ; the ruined towers still stand in this clearest of water. A curious effect is produced by strong... springs of fresh water rising in the sea at the distance of a few yards from the shore, causing an appearance like that seen on mixing syrup or spirit with water ; the sea being so clear that the bursting of the fresh water from among the stones at the bottom, although at a great depth, is distinctly visible. I have already mentioned that the country at the back of Adalia is composed for thirty or forty miles of a mass of incrusted or petrified vegetable AD ALIA. 185 matter lying embosomed, as it were, in the side of the high range of marble mountains, which must originally have formed the coast of this country.
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