. A description of the East, and some other countries . inftead of crooked timber, they faw thewood to the fhape that is necefiary for building. As to the otherbranches of trade, it is the fame here as throughout the whole ifland, and iconfifts in a very great export of oil of olives to France, and to many iparts of the Levant, which latter is carried on by fmall veftiels or boats, i!They have alfo very good fcamony and althea here, and I faw a great iquantity of alkermes, but they do not make any ufe of it. They have |hkewife an export of tar extrafted from their pines. On the twenty-fecond o
. A description of the East, and some other countries . inftead of crooked timber, they faw thewood to the fhape that is necefiary for building. As to the otherbranches of trade, it is the fame here as throughout the whole ifland, and iconfifts in a very great export of oil of olives to France, and to many iparts of the Levant, which latter is carried on by fmall veftiels or boats, i!They have alfo very good fcamony and althea here, and I faw a great iquantity of alkermes, but they do not make any ufe of it. They have |hkewife an export of tar extrafted from their pines. On the twenty-fecond oi Oftober, I fet out to make a tour roundthe ifland, in company with fome gentlemen of the French nation,and under the protedion of a janizary. The ifland is mountainous jone chain of hills that are moftly rocky, confifts chiefly of marble,and runs the whole length of the ifland; another crofles it towards theweft end; the whole ifland abounds much in hot baths. We wentalong the north fide of it, and obferved that the ruins of the old city extended ;.
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