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 George's Channel, with the mountains of Wales in sight, or along the southern shore of the Isle of Wight. This evening, while the mountains to our left were in deep shadow, the setting sun, striking across the open plain before us, fell on a long range of cliffs on our right, the effect of which was heightened by the mirage, which made them seem as if they rose out of water, and thus reminded me of the chalk cliffs of Dover, while isolated cliffs, standing out here and there, might easily be imagined a fleet of line-of-battle ships bearing down the Channel. Yet this is the route to Palestine by Nukhl, which "presents no object of interest to the traveller"!