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near the embouchures of the Cydaris and Barbyses, CHAP. owing to the quantity of mud they deposit at their junction; whence it bore the expressive appellation of the PUTRID SEA': and so am- Marcidum biguous was the nature of the territory, that it pastured, at the same time, quadrupeds and fishes*; the cattle and the deer of THRACE, and the Pelamides of the EUXINE".

(3) For a full account of these rivers, almost unnoticed elsewhere in geography, vide Gyllium, de Bosp. Thrac. lib. ii. cap. 3. ("De Flumine CYDARI et BARBYSA") apud Gronov. Thesaur. Græc. Antiq. vol. VI. p. 3128. L. Bat. 1699.

(4) "Locum (inquit Dionys. Byzant.) nuncupatum Cameram, quem ante dixi fuisse ad radices sexti collis, excipit σargà Oά2acoa, id est, Marcidum Mare, finis totius sinus." Ibid. lib. ii. c. 2. p. 3125.

(5) "In mediis paludibus, boum nutricibus, sunt prata uberes pastiones largientia, etiam cervis: hos Deus designavit cum deductoribus coloniæ consilium petentibus, ubi conderent urbem, appellatum Byzantium, ita respondit:

Ὄλβιοι οἳ κείνην πόλιν ἀνέρες οἰκήσουσιν,

*Ακτῆς Θρηϊκίης ὑγρὸν παρ ̓ ἄκρον στόμα Πόντου,

Ενθ' ἰχθύς, ἔλαφός τε νομὸν βόσκουσι τὸν αὐτόν.

Dionys. Byzant. ap. Gyll. de Bosph. Thrac. lib. ii. c. 2. (6) PELAMIS was a name given to the fry of the TUNNY (a variety of the genus SCOMBER) before it attained a year old. This kind of fry frequented the extremity of the Sinus Byzantinus, in such prodigious shoals, that the fishermen, according to Gyllius, used to fill their boats with a single draught of their nets. The Tunny is mentioned by Aristotle, as being the Pelamis after it is a year old. Δοκοῦσι δ' ἐνιαυτῷ εἶναι προσο Búrsgu rãv anλapídwv. Aristot. (xɛgì Zwwv) lib. vi. cap.17. tom. I. p. 370. Paris, 1783. Pliny mentions its migration in the spring, and makes the same distinction of age between the PELAMIS and the TUNNY: "" Limosa verò a luto PELAMIDES incipiunt vocari, et cum annuum excessére tempus, THYNNI." (Hist. Nat. lib. ix. cap. 15. tom. I. p. 475. L. Bat. 1635.) Also, in the thirty-third book he enumerates many sub-varieties of the PELAMIS. (Vide cap. 11. lib. xxxiii. tom. III. pp. 326,327.)

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THE NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY FROM CONSTANTINOPLE

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THE GOLD AND SILVER MINES OF HUNGARY.

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Onyx Intaglio found by the Mud-washers of Constantinople.

CHAP. I.

FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, TO THE PASSAGE OF MOUNT HÆMUS.

Temperature of the Winter Season-Grand Signior sends an Ambassador to Paris-The Author prepares to accompany the Embassy-Receives a magnificent present of Wood-Opal-Death of KAUFFER-Cavalcade upon leaving Péra- Appearance of the Ambassador - Interview with his Excellency-Commencement of the Expedition -Persons in the Suite-Aspect of the Country-Pivatis -Selivria-Kunneklea-Tchorlu-TURULLUS-Alarm excited by the journey - Remarkable Serpent-Caristrania-Burghaz-Approach to Mount Hamus-Additional escort Hasilbalem Kirk Iklisie Hericlér

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