bestow that moral and animated interest on the landscape, whose deficiency chills the warmest scene, and renders an Eden but a desolate and melancholy waste.

The Athenians had landed in the port of a little Greek village, to obtain that repose so necessary to their exhausted frames. The next morning they weighed anchor for the port of Smyrna. The inconsequence of the volik enabled them to pass the fortress (which commands the entrance of the bay) unnoticed that beautiful bay! which was now crowded with vessels of every nation, of every form, and every burthen!

It was now, that that ancient and celebrated city, which arose from the visionary dream of the world's conqueror, under the supposed guidance of deity, first presented itself to the

eyes of Ida, and gave to her reflective mind new images of the power and genius of the man.

For the first time she beheld a great and opulent city, become, so by commercial exertion-she beheld it reposing at the base of those lofty hills, to whose marble veins so many of its ancient edifices owed their beauty.-The spires of its christian character, the minarets of its Turkish mosques, the cupulos of its Jewish synagogues, spoke that happy and liberal toleration which the common interests of a commercial people produce; and in the fragrance and purity of its air, its delicious climate, and luxurious groves, she recognized the happy and felicitous region which had given birth to the genius of a Homer.-Several pleasureboats passed them, decorated with taste their gay streamers floating on the

air, their decks crowded with persons indiscriminately habited in the Asiatic and European costume, and accompanied by bands of music.

Ida understood from Stephaniki that these were parties of Smyrnian factors and European merchants, returning from one of those piscatory expeditions which form at that season of the year, a principal amusement to the inhabitants of Smyrna.

It was evening when the Athenians entered the harbour; Smyrna, rising from the shore towards the brow of its lofty mountains, appeared blazing with illuminations, and resounded to the gay vibrations of joy, festivity, and pleasure. Colours were hoisted from the masts of the vessels,-lamps of various colours glittered on their prows, and Stephaniki informed the amazed Athenians that they would have the

good fortune to enter Smyrna on the night of its annual fair.

The children and the paramana delighted in a circumstance that promised them so much amusement; Ida was not averse to it, as the crowds that filled the streets would prevent her family becoming an object of attention as they passed them on their way to a khan,

or inn.

The volik now anchored before the beautiful street of the Franks, which, running parallel with the harbour, is shaded by little groves of orange and citron trees, watered, by streams flowing from the river Meles, whose shores the Smyrnians traditionally assert to have been the birth-place of Homer.The splendid edifices of the factors displayed a brilliant illumination reflected on the green foliage of the trees;— or flinging a level stream of light on

the bosom of the harbour, united by their reflexes the brightness of an ardent day, to the refreshing coolness of a balmy eastern evening.

Several pleasure-boats lit up with coloured lamps, and filled with musicians, floated on the water, and a gay and pleasurable multitude hailed them from the shore. Ida and her little family landed near the street of the Franks, which was the principal scene of festivity, and where all was calculated to dissipate, if not to amuse or touch the mind. Here a booth displayed a variety of the most precious stones and richest stuffs-there a temporary bower supplied the happy revellers with coffee and sherbet. On one side a grave Arab danced an ape, to the rude sounds of the Taborah-basque-on the other, an Egyptian serpent-eater, drew