It was a branch of the Taurus.

The highest peaks glistened like silver in the evening light, enveloped in a garment of snow.
May 23d.
To-day our organs of vision had a rest, for we were sailing on the high seas.

Late in the evening, however, the sailors descried the mountains of Cyprus looming in the far distance like a misty cloud.
With my less practised eyes I could see nothing but the sunset at sea--a phenomenon of which I had had a more exalted conception.

The rising and setting of the sun at sea is not nearly so striking a spectacle as the same phenomenon in a rocky landscape.

At sea the sky is generally cloudless in the evening, and the sun gradually sinks, without refraction of rays or prismatic play of colours, into its ocean-bed, to pursue its unchanging course the next day.