... andresented it by scampering all over the place, scratching and poking, andsqueaking and screeching, andcaterwauling and squalling, and flying into the faces, and running under the petticoatsof the people, ... sun-dial,and twenty-four cabbages. The buildingsthemselves are so precisely alike, that onecan in no manner be distinguished from the other. Owing to the vast antiquity, the styleof architecture ... continuous row of sixtylittle houses. These, having their backs on the hills, must look, of course, to the centre of the plain, which is just sixtyyards from the front door of eachdwelling....