There was certainly not a single tree in all the wood which a painter might have chosen for a study, for they were all small and crippled.

Large leafy trees, like those in my own land, are very seldom seen in this country.

The carob, which grows here in abundance, is almost the only handsome tree; it has a beautiful leaf, scarcely larger than that of a rose-tree, of an oval form, as thick as the back of a knife, and of a beautiful bright green colour.
Mount Carmel lies on the sea-shore.

It is not high, and half an hour suffices the traveller to reach its summit, which is crowned by a spacious and beautiful convent, probably the handsomest in all Palestine, not even excepting the monasteries at Nazareth and Jerusalem.

The main front of the building contains a suite of six or seven large rooms, with folding-doors and lofty regular windows.
These rooms, together with several in the wings, are devoted to the reception of strangers.