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unlike that of Smyrna y at the foot whereof runs a Rivulet, after it has made l
thoulan :1 MaanderMin the Meadows. The City feems to have been very large for
you may difeern upon the top of the Gates the compafs of thfc Walls, with fevers!
fquare Towers, fome of which are ftill landing : and there is one very remarkable
having two Chambers in ir, one of which is a very fair one, the Walls and Pave
ment whereof are Marble. < , ; . :
. The famous Temple of Diana Hood at the bottom of the Hill near one of ti e
Gates of the City; There remains nothing .of it at prefent but the great Portal, which
is entire. The Vaults of the Arches under grounditand to this day,and are very large
bat all full of naftiriefs. We went in with Lanthorns; and though you tnuft creep to ?
get in, by realon that the Wind has almoft ftopt up the . Hole, by gathering the
Pull about it, yet when you are in, you njay go upright i for the Arches are
high and fair, and little the work. Near the Gate lye four or five Columns upon'
the Ground, «nd near to that a Fountain^ ten Foot in Diameter, and two deep
The People of the Country report, that it was the Fountain wherein St Tofo*'
Baptiz’d the Chriftians. For my part, as 1 have feen in the Mies feveral Pa<ibd, and
Edifices much more beautiful than ever the Temple oi.Epbcfiis could be • f believe
it rather to have been a Bafin wherein the People put their Offerings of which
there are feveral fuch that belong to the The Greeks and Arme-
nimss, but above all the Prmki, when they go to Efbefm always endeavour toi
break off fome piece of that Bafin, to carry it away with’em as a Relick- but the
Stone is fp hard, that they can break off but very little at a time.
. Not far from the Temple appears another Gate of the City,' over which there
lyes a great Stone feven or eight Foot fquare, with an embofsfd Figure of 3 Curtius
that Famous .Roman ,who threw himielf, Horfe and Arims into the eapfirS F-rrh
for the good of Ms Country, Many Merchants have offer'd Money for liberty to
carry it away, but cannot obtain leave. About five hundred Paces from EMm
is the Grotto which they call the Seven Sleepers, at the bottom of the fame Hill where
the City was built. , •• .. . : v _ . ;
- trom Efheffis we went to Skahnov^ which is not. above two Leagues off
that time you come half the way, the little River that runs by falls into the
Sea, m the mouth whereof there are always a great number of GW Barks filhin*
for Sturgeon. Of the Spawn of this Filh they make Cave are, and drive a great'
Trade in it m thofe Parts: then they take the molt delicate and fmalleft Entrails of
that hlh, which they fill with the fame Spawn, of which they make a kind of aflat
Pudding, as long as a Bisket, which they call Botargo. This they dry in the Smoair
and cut it afterwards in dices to cat. Upon this and the Cuttle-fifh the Pc-
netwy feed during their Lent, which is very aufeere.
f a Port of which I have already fpoken , and thither we came by
ieyen a Clock.in the Evening .. where the Gpvcrnour of the Place, .more civil thin
uiually the Turks areaccuftPmd to be, made us very welconl.
In the Evening one of. our Janmearies had quarrel’d with one of our Servants
who thereupon had beaten him, and therefore he complain'd to the Fellow’s uZ
fter, who not giving him that iatisfadion which he defir’d, thereupon the Turk
ftudy d to be reveng d upon the whole Company. For this reafon, upon feme pre-
ttna-orother, he went before, the better to bring about his defign. We ftafef
till tne Morning, and then departed early from Scalamva, and by Nooti we came
with_good Stomachs to the Mofcjnee neat Epbeftes ,where we had been the day before •
And lome of the Company thought it a very convenient place to dine in, i’the
w er f Upon for our Provifions, with a Boracho of Wine, and ano-
.mw hsrm ^ u/ ea tj n g m the Paffagc into the Mofquec, not dreaming
f m ' , W j bad not ocen long at it, when we perceiv’d two or three Turks
lL^™ tW ,, 0 ,? Und a d Pa r e3 . 0 ^ who came from a Village very near to the Mofcuee.
I knowmg the cuftom of the Country better than they, told them, that they were
ccminly commg ro pick a quarrel with us, and therefore caus’d them to hide the
Bottle of Wine immediately for it was then the Tmtkt Radunan, or Lent ; daring
S/ C 18 'V ‘^bidden. Thefe two ill-contriv’d and ill clad Fellow!
«(Lr7 Jan / ar,e / C ^ e pace ’ who[n theCad > had-fent, upon the information
t y ^ vh ° knowln g we had eaten in the fame place before, as-indeed
we had done, made no qucftion but we would do fo again) thinking to furprtzeus
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