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<head>5</head><p> <add> errand</add> had been, not to pave the way for my reception any where,<lb/> but to bring a parcel of pipe bowls with wheels attached<lb/> to them one on each side. Of this clumsy appendage what <lb/> can be the use? The man made signs as if they were to enable <lb/> the smoker to glide the pipe with greater facility upon<lb/> the floor on which the length of the tube obliges him to <gap/><lb/> <gap/> it. I saw I think about 7 or 8 shops appropriated<lb/> solely to the vending of these implements with a very few<lb/> others of the same kind of ware. Ahmed suffered me to go <lb/> into a few others to buy some figs &c.; which gave me<lb/> a view of the greatest part of the Bazar (quarter for shops) <lb/> but either through laziness or prudence forbid my going any <lb/> further. I was therefore obliged to repress my wishes of exploring<lb/>a town which <add>from</add> the apparent wealth of its shops and the number and <lb/> size of its mosques promised to be considerable. The windows of our<lb/> apartment here too were of oiled paper: We had for supper a <sic>salad,</sic> composed of chopped onions, and a couple of the Turkish<lb/> hashes above-mentioned; and for desert some excellent grapes. I could <lb/> | <head>5</head><p> <add> errand</add> had been, not to pave the way for my reception any where,<lb/> but to bring a parcel of pipe bowls with wheels attached<lb/> to them one on each side. Of this clumsy appendage what <lb/> can be the use? The man made signs as if they were to enable <lb/> the smoker to glide the pipe with greater facility upon<lb/> the floor on which the length of the tube obliges him to <gap/><lb/> <gap/> it. I saw I think about 7 or 8 shops appropriated<lb/> solely to the vending of these implements with a very few<lb/> others of the same kind of ware. Ahmed suffered me to go <lb/> into a few others to buy some figs &c.; which gave me<lb/> a view of the greatest part of the Bazar (quarter for shops) <lb/> but either through laziness or prudence forbid my going any <lb/> further. I was therefore obliged to repress my wishes of exploring<lb/>a town which <add>from</add> the apparent wealth of its shops and the number and <lb/> size of its mosques promised to be considerable. The windows of our<lb/> apartment here too were of oiled paper: We had for supper a <sic>salad,</sic> composed of chopped onions, and a couple of the Turkish<lb/> hashes above-mentioned; and for desert some excellent grapes. I could <lb/> get a near view of no more than one of the Mosques, which <sic>seem'd</sic> <lb/> well as large as a moderate sized English Catherdaral, I saw a <lb/> really considerable Gun-smiths shop.</p> <p> Tuesday Dec:<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 13. we left Burgas at 40 minutes after 6: at 2<lb/> o'clock we reached Kirk Eglise, and there ended our days journey.<lb/> About an hours ride from Burgas we <sic>enter'd</sic> a kind of forest, <lb/> composed of Pollard and underwood Oaks thickly <sic>scatter'd</sic> intermingled<lb/> with the <foreign><unclear>Rhammus Palimus;</unclear></foreign> about 3 or 4 hours afterwards<lb/>we passed through a Village with one Mosque, called if I understood <lb/> Ahmet right, Atabayla. Here were some cabbage<lb/> fields, producing some good sized cabbages, several cart-loads<lb/> of which we did see travelling towards Burgas, from 16 <lb/> to 20 miles distant: to get seed from Atabayla, where the <lb/> market for cabbages can be but small, and sow them at Burgas<lb/>where it cannot but be <del>gre</del> considerable, would <lb/> be too great an <sic>enterprize</sic> too refined a speculation for a <lb/> Turkish husbandman.</p> <p> At Kirk Eglise the In we put up at was of a constriction<lb/> quite different from that <add>of any</add> we had ever seen before: <lb/> <unclear>ranges</unclear> of apartments built round a quadrangular area, like <lb/> many Inns in England particularly in London: the ground <lb/> floor, stables: the first floor lodging rooms; a few humbler<lb/> rooms a story higher: here we got a room, to appearances <lb/> at least upon a par with any of the rest, full of windows<lb/> glazed, so to speak, with oiled paper, which at first might<lb/> have been totally transparent, but by repeated patchings <lb/> had become in most places <sic>opake</sic>: so much so<lb/> that it was with difficulty I could see to hold a pen at <lb/> noon-day. In this dungeon above ground I was doomed<lb/> to pass little less than two days. The day of our arrival<lb/> neither of us <add> kind</add> proposed to stir: for though we have had fine<lb/> moons. Ahmet will never hear of taking the benefit of them<lb/> he chooses rather to set out early in the morning, when it is<lb/>pitch dark.</p> <p> Wednesday Dec:<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 14. Upon our rising I proposed to Ahmet<lb/> according to my agreement with D<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Bartolozzi to wait that<lb/> day for his arrival with the Russian courier: but Ahmet<lb/> would hear of no such thing: but some delay happening <lb/> in the <del>getting ready</del> <add> packing up</add> of our baggage, so that it was broad daylight<lb/> before we were in readiness, he <sic>alter'd</sic> his mind and <lb/> refused to stir: not on account of the above-mentioned engagement<lb/> of which he had been appraised in good Turkish by <lb/> the Doctor, and to which he had promised to conform, but<lb/> because there was no place where we could get a lodging<lb/> nearer than Canara, and Canara was not reachable before<lb/> sunset, so that we should be in danger from highwaymen, who<lb/> would shoot us and so forth, as he made me easily understand<lb/> by signs.</p> <p> Thursday Dec:<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> 15. This morning every thing was in readiness<lb/> in good time, and I expected every instant to set off, when </p> <pb/> | ||
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errand had been, not to pave the way for my reception any where,
but to bring a parcel of pipe bowls with wheels attached
to them one on each side. Of this clumsy appendage what
can be the use? The man made signs as if they were to enable
the smoker to glide the pipe with greater facility upon
the floor on which the length of the tube obliges him to
it. I saw I think about 7 or 8 shops appropriated
solely to the vending of these implements with a very few
others of the same kind of ware. Ahmed suffered me to go
into a few others to buy some figs &c.; which gave me
a view of the greatest part of the Bazar (quarter for shops)
but either through laziness or prudence forbid my going any
further. I was therefore obliged to repress my wishes of exploring
a town which from the apparent wealth of its shops and the number and
size of its mosques promised to be considerable. The windows of our
apartment here too were of oiled paper: We had for supper a salad, composed of chopped onions, and a couple of the Turkish
hashes above-mentioned; and for desert some excellent grapes. I could
get a near view of no more than one of the Mosques, which seem'd
well as large as a moderate sized English Catherdaral, I saw a
really considerable Gun-smiths shop.
Tuesday Dec:r 13. we left Burgas at 40 minutes after 6: at 2
o'clock we reached Kirk Eglise, and there ended our days journey.
About an hours ride from Burgas we enter'd a kind of forest,
composed of Pollard and underwood Oaks thickly scatter'd intermingled
with the Rhammus Palimus; about 3 or 4 hours afterwards
we passed through a Village with one Mosque, called if I understood
Ahmet right, Atabayla. Here were some cabbage
fields, producing some good sized cabbages, several cart-loads
of which we did see travelling towards Burgas, from 16
to 20 miles distant: to get seed from Atabayla, where the
market for cabbages can be but small, and sow them at Burgas
where it cannot but be gre considerable, would
be too great an enterprize too refined a speculation for a
Turkish husbandman.
At Kirk Eglise the In we put up at was of a constriction
quite different from that of any we had ever seen before:
ranges of apartments built round a quadrangular area, like
many Inns in England particularly in London: the ground
floor, stables: the first floor lodging rooms; a few humbler
rooms a story higher: here we got a room, to appearances
at least upon a par with any of the rest, full of windows
glazed, so to speak, with oiled paper, which at first might
have been totally transparent, but by repeated patchings
had become in most places opake: so much so
that it was with difficulty I could see to hold a pen at
noon-day. In this dungeon above ground I was doomed
to pass little less than two days. The day of our arrival
neither of us kind proposed to stir: for though we have had fine
moons. Ahmet will never hear of taking the benefit of them
he chooses rather to set out early in the morning, when it is
pitch dark.
Wednesday Dec:r 14. Upon our rising I proposed to Ahmet
according to my agreement with Dr Bartolozzi to wait that
day for his arrival with the Russian courier: but Ahmet
would hear of no such thing: but some delay happening
in the getting ready packing up of our baggage, so that it was broad daylight
before we were in readiness, he alter'd his mind and
refused to stir: not on account of the above-mentioned engagement
of which he had been appraised in good Turkish by
the Doctor, and to which he had promised to conform, but
because there was no place where we could get a lodging
nearer than Canara, and Canara was not reachable before
sunset, so that we should be in danger from highwaymen, who
would shoot us and so forth, as he made me easily understand
by signs.
Thursday Dec:r 15. This morning every thing was in readiness
in good time, and I expected every instant to set off, when
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