our right. The latter is much higher than Kastania, and, like the other
peaked summits of the Maenalian range, is covered with firs, and deeply at
present with snow. The snow lies also in our pass. At a fountain in the
road, the small village of Bazeniko is half a mile on the right, standing
at the foot of the Maenalian range, and now covered with snow.

Saeta is the most lofty of the range of mountains, which are in face of
Levidhi, to the northward and eastward; they are all a part of the chain
which extends from Mount Khelmos, and connects that great summit with
Artemisium, Parthenium, and Parnon. Mount Saeta is covered with firs. The
mountain between the plain of Levidhi and Alonistena, or, to speak by the
ancient nomenclature, that part of the Maenalian range which separates the
Orchomenia from the valleys of Helisson and Methydrium, is clothed also
with large forests of the same trees; the road across this ridge from
Lavidhi to Alonistena is now impracticable on account of the snow.

I am detained all day at Levidhi by a heavy fall of snow, which before the
evening has covered the ground to half a foot in depth, although the
village is not much elevated above the plain, nor in a more lofty situation
than Tripolitza.

_March 4th._--Yesterday afternoon and during the night the snow fell in
such quantities as to cover all the plains and adjacent mountains; and the
country exhibited this morning as fine a snow-scene as Norway could supply.
As the day advanced and the sun appeared, the snow melted rapidly, but the
sky was soon overcast again, and the snow began to fall.

[23] Just in time, finding a heap of gold under an oak tree some thousand
years old, near Arundel, I've made them out: Eight, divided by three; that
is to say, three couples of petals, with two odd little ones inserted for
form's sake. No wonder I couldn't decipher them by memory.

[24] Figs. 8 and 9 are both drawn and engraved by Mr. Burgess.

[25] Of Vespertilian science generally, compare 'Eagles' Nest,' pp. 25 and
179.

[26] The mathematical term is 'rhomb.'

[27] [Greek: hes to sperma artopoieitai.]

[28] [Greek: epimekes echousa to kephalion.] Dioscorides makes no effort to
distinguish species, but gives the different names as if merely used in
different places.

[29] It is also used sometimes of the garden poppy, says Dioscorides,
"[Greek: dia to rhein ex autes ton opon]"--"because the sap, opium, flows
from it."

[30] See all the