There are no other towns in the isle of Zante; but numerous villages and hamlets, many of them singular in the beauty of their situation. The country on the skirts and ascent of Monte Skopo is interesting from the number of villas, convents, and chapels, which are scattered over its broken surface, and under the shade of the olive-groves, covering the lower part of this mountain. Though Zante presents every-where an aspect of luxuriant vegetation, yet the number of forest trees in the island is very inconsiderable, and the epithet af nemorosa Zacynthus could now be given to it only from the woods of olive which border the coast, and the fruit-trees which are abundant over the surface of the country.
