Travels in Turkey and back to England / By the late reverend and learned Edmund Chishull.

  • Edmund Chishull
Date:
1747
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    This cool and refreshing vale lafted an hour, after which we begin to defcend the hill by a more deep and dangerous way, than we before had mounted ; but nothing was more difagreable, than fo fenfible a change of air, which we now experienced, being as it were at once tranflated out of the frigid into the torrid zone. Such was the difference betwixt the valley we had left, and the fouthern part of the hill we were now traveling. This heat being added to the laborious and tedious circuits, without which the defcent was abfolutely impoffible, brought us at length by one of the clock almoft half dead to Birghee. Nor were we capable of being refrefhed, either with the remembrance of that pleafant mountain, we had paffed; or with the view of the Cayftrian plain, which we had then before us. The rich products of mount Tmolus ought not here to be forgot \ which nature has furnifhed with that Store and variety of plants, that it may defervedly be termed the phyfic garden of the univerfe. The valley, which we mentioned, is enriched with a vein of marble, clear and pellucid enough to contend with ala- bafter. Nor is it to be negledled, that on the fouthern defcent of the hill we traveled over a continued track of Stone, adorned with bright and fhining particles refembling gold duff; the oc- cafion moft probably of fo many fplendid epithets, which in an- tient poetry are beStowed on the Paftolus. Birghee is a fair and contiderable TurkiSh town, adorned with two very handfom mofques ; and pleafantly feated in the road from Sardis, at the oppofite foot of Tmolus. This makes it pro¬ bable, it was the H'ypaepae of the antients, that fituation exactly anfwering to the description, which Ovid and Strabo have left us of it4. We were here received into a public kane, where we en¬ joyed an hearty and entire repofe ; tho fweetened rather by the fatigue of the foregoing day, than any entertainment or accom¬ modation of the place. 1 'T7t££jc«]«i twv XafiJfuv 6 T/wwAof, tvSatifAov of of. Strabo, Lib. xiii. pag. 625. * Ovid. Met. Lib. xi.^'. 150. Riget ar- duus alto Tmolus in afcenfu *, clivoque extenfus utroquc Sardibits hinc, illinc parvis finitur Hypaepis. '’Y-ttcutux. zsoMf i?\ KothxGalvyiriv dmo 15 Tfxuha «V to tS Kavffs mMov. Lib. xiii. pag. 627.