text:  Their elegance and unusual variety were sufficient to throw a botanist into a perfect HAY fever and our own first paroxysm only went off when after an hour's hard collecting we came to a place which demanded _another_ sort of enthusiasm; for THERE stood without a veil the _Temple of Segeste_ with one or two glimpses of which we had been already astonished at a distance in all its Dorian majesty! This almost unmutilated and glorious memorial of past ages here reigns alone--the only building far or near visible in the whole horizon; and what a position has its architect secured! In the midst of hills on a bit of table-land apparently made such by smoothing down the summit of one of them with a greensward in front and set off behind by a mountain background stands this eternal monument of the noblest of arts amidst the finest dispositions of nature